"We are at the helm of not only our own physicality but our environment and other species, too, as sentient, conscious beings who can think of future and affect consequence, and create progeny with our minds as well as our bodies."

"Sex is communication and creation. In my novel, "Flight", two lovers have sex by becoming a forest and rain."

"There is also something more [...] because as humans we possess, call it reason, spirit, consciousness, what ever, it's a numinous element beyond the perfunctory form following function."

"Sex is powerful, it's procreative, it's a force that drives salmon to swim up stream defying rocky obstacles to thrash new forms into existence and, physiologically, the human body is also rigged with that drive that ensures the human race will continue."

"Sure, the sheer animal aspect of our physicality is an intrinsic component of what we are."

"The view from space is described as life-changing...seeing Earth, our home planet, the jewel it is, a mass, a rock suspended in its neighborhood, our neighborhood, the universe."

"Imagine gazing at Earth or other space views."

"Unfamiliar environments heighten adrenalin, which might work for stimulating excitement or against totally relaxing into any kind of intimacy."

"In zero gravity, [[w:space adaptation syndomre]|SAS]] aside, it's possible to perform amazing physical feats. Ironically, it's more like being there as a mind."

"Experiencing that in general was curiously amazing."

"I was surprised and fascinated to experience the absolute lack of physical attraction, in terms of physical mass, in z-g."

"Eventually space environments could be created to provide the best of both worlds, such as, for one example, settlements or habitats designed to create their own gravity, with chambers where reduced gravity or weightlessness can also be experienced optionally."

"In z-g, fluids redistribute to the upper body."

"It's an amazing and exhilarating thing to experience gravity lift away from around the body."

"Any time a body goes outside the environmental conditions for which it developed it has to acclimate."

"In lunar gravity, it was easy to do one-handed push ups and somersault effortlessly."

"Earth is in space, too, so really sex in space isn't anything new."

"Dreams are the food of human progress. Poetry, like all physics, ultimately quantifies the unquantifiable that is beyond all form."

"A spaceship rhymes with all the dreams, nascent wonder, and hope of a humanity looking up in awe at an excruciatingly beautiful Cosmos, with"

"To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful."

"Pythagoras was the first person to call the universe Cosmos, describing it a kosmos. The Greek word means an equal presence of order and beauty."

"It’s of note that the word 'cosmetic' has its roots in the word 'cosmos.'"

"Poetry achieves its pinnacle when it is the perfection and mastery of expression (creation, perception) as Art (arrangement)."

"Poetry is a transfusion of the ephemeral blood that sustains the universal heartbeat within human society."

"The social value of a poem is proved not by marketing or reviews but by enduring resonance, a process that occurs as a response over time by humanity."

"The forms [of poetry] are subsets of the principles that govern the cosmos itself which, by its very definition is: a complete, orderly, harmonious system."

"For literary purposes, the art of writing poetry can be simply defined as: A creative act using language as a medium refined to an art."

"A phoneme, an utterance, could be said to be the beginning of poetry's evolutionary chain."

"We call interconnected order beautiful. When interrupted, we call it chaos."

"Everything poetic exists as a subset of a whole, and within the authoritative system of Nature."

"All of life and the cosmos can be seen as concinnous (harmoniously congruous, neat, elegant) wholes with a whole, unless in chaos; and, even then, chaos occurs (or is avoided) within systems (whether minute or vast) that are themselves balanced, or concinnous."

"These elements — rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity — can inevitably be identified within whatever is proclaimed 'poetry.'"

"Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem."

"It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful, it is marvelously ineffable."

"Poetry emulates the Cosmos perhaps because the Cosmos itself is the grandest conceivable example of rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity."

"Sex in space is not about going somewhere else to have sex; it's ultimately about expanding beyond our immediate neighborhood, into a Universe to which we belong."

"People have been making love and having sex in space over the thousands of years that our ancestors lived and traveled in small hunting-and-gathering bands. Earth is in Space."

"Human migration beyond Earth is our destiny, not as in something preordained, but in the sense of it being inevitable and necessary. The lot of humanity seems to be that of expanding consciousness into new territory."

"It’s vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanity’s continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun."

"It is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life."

"If form follows function, as we know it does in this Universe, then consciousness will adapt to whatever form it requires in order to function. Hopefully, it will also develop its fundamental function; what that is may be debatable within many schools of thought, but it is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life."

"Space settlements would also contain biospheres replicating Earth conditions and atmosphere.""

"Human forms are perpetuated through sex, and sex also perpetuates human consciousness."

"Some animals on Earth regurgitate as opposed to vomit, i.e., stomach contents flow up into the esophagus without any forceful abdominal contractions. What I experienced in zero gravity was similar to this, expulsion without the heaves."

"On Earth, much of the wrenching discomfort of emesis, apart from the sensation of nausea itself, is from the coordination of many muscles it takes to counter gravity."

"As our faces and bodies drew nearer, gravity was not helping us at all. It took minor struggle to come together, and we had to hold on in an effort to keep our lips aligned."

"Having personally kissed in zero gravity, I was initially amazed by the unexpected lack of attraction, from the sheer perspective of the mass magnetism."

"To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground."