Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.