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

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

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.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

Normal' is a dryer setting.

I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.

I used to not back down from a challenge.