When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

I used to not back down from a challenge.

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.