“He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That ...”

“Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.”

“Some say God is living there [in space]. I was looking around very attentively, but I did not see anyone there. I did not detect either angels or gods....I don't believe in God. I believe in man - ...”

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, int...”

“We're all astronauts, really, aren't we; interstellar astronauts, travelling so far into the blackness we can never return.”