As much as we've enjoyed it up here, we're also starting to look forward to seeing all the people back on Earth that we miss and love so much.

Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received a call from an astronaut, who suggested that I should join the program.

The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little bit of everything. I mean, we're going to ride a rocket uphill.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?

Making mistakes is the privilege of the active - of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.

If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.

The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.