This book is a story, and like all stories, it should be taken with a grain of salt.

Every New Yorker thinks they’re automatically better than everyone else in every other city on the planet: even their unnems were a better class of beggars.

The only things I can’t offer you are children and politicians: the first is illegal and the second is expensive

Sometimes respect is as hard a currency as money is

What did journalists know of tech, anyway? Who gave a damn about the press? We were the Good Guys. Changing the World. Doing the Important Stuff.

Discrimination is not just racial now. It’s also about the kind of body parts you have.

On some days it felt like we owned the Earth, and the only place left to expand to was the next planet down the line.

Empty pockets taught me a million lessons

Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

He who has good health is young.

My advice for anyone who wants to follow in my footsteps: create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself.

God got nothing to lose. Them who think they can use God, they wiping out them own selves. If you think you can use God, you are destroying your own self.

I always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect.

The older you get the simpler you want to make it.

Leave this world a little better than you found it.