So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

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.

Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.