When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

Fortunately, I got called down to NASA for an interview. And one thing led to the next, and one day I got that call. I've been here about seven years now and am really enjoying it.

It looks like the future's really bright.

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

A strong ant is better than a weak lion.

Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness

You have not realized yet that both of you are mine, have you?

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left.

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

If I know I have everything prepared for when I get killed by a stalker, then I can go to sleep.

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.