Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

The CFL made me a more versatile QB because of all the things you had to do once you got on the field. And if I wasn't as versatile as I was, I wouldn't have been as successful in all the different offenses that I was in, in the NFL.

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.

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

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.

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.