“I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.”

“During launch, the outside of the rocket is covered in a protective fairing, so we couldn't see outside, but as soon as that was jettisoned, my first view of the earth was over the Pacific Ocean, w...”

“People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.”

“You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it's the human endeavour.”

“The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.”

“A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book.”

“People who want to climb mountains just like taking metaphors for real. So when I say I could murder for a mangosteen, I hope you dont think Im going to go out and do that.”

“In the sacred season, we shall harvest the ripen fruit.”

“All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.”

“Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.”

“Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.”

“You are the silence between the notes. The white space between the letters. The missing that makes everything else a something.”

“Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.”

“Something else has happened with computers.”