I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover which came out weekly unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

The sports page records people's accomplishments the front page usually records nothing but man's failures.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

Usually terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all but just terrible things.

Usually if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move!

My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press by science fiction periodicals romance magazines small press publications and various other journals including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

Usually girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher Ms. Paz Jensen made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.

I was always good at math and science and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?