Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

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

Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.

Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.