I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.

...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.