"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."

"Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species."

"The really exciting focus here [is] the event and others like it that encourage, support and celebrate the enterprising innovation of pioneers working to give humanity wings."

"I love the sound of those engines."

"God and I were nude."

"I consider myself more exportant than important."

"Sex in space is more than a Big Bang."

"Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor."

"At the end of a person's life that's what they are looking at. What happened inside? How did that experience change me, and how did I change it?"

"Gifts have ribbons, not strings."

"I was really gobsmacked."

"We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I."

"Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms."

"Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival."

"Innovation is strict common sense with wild imagination."

"Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion."

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

"What goes up can continue."

"I believe Love is the most courageous act of which a human being is capable. The word courage even stems from the root word “heart” (coeur). Scientifically speaking, it is quantifiable only by recognition of its quality."

"Love consults itself."

"On Earth it was day in some places, night in others."

"Love's not an emotion. It's a state of being, an ability."

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

"We saw Earth’s breath."

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

"I said, "...it is quantum fiction." The first line of the story is "Which came first, the observer or the particle?" - and it goes from there."

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

"The impact of space activities is nothing less than the galvanizing of hope and imagination for human life continuum into a future of infinite possibility."

"Viewers of television, for instance, aren't aware of their own physical vulnerabilities. They get used, manipulated by images of depersonalized sex."

"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."

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

"Popularity is not an indication of quality."

"Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?"

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

"When we love there is no reason why."

"Stella, I never knew you but here I am, in your room, a week after your death. … I thought of you, Stella, and wondered if you watched your moments, or if they all snuck by. I whispered your name into the day, carried on for you in reverence, and I felt you rest and continue the smile."

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

"Life kissed her however it could."

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

"Love is the eternal first breath."

"I suppose it would be a lot easier if a training manual were issued at puberty. Chapter One: what your body is feeling isn't necessarily you."

"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."

"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."

"Harmony, rhythm, concision, concinnity are all elements that are epitomized in poetry. Cultivated in poetry, which is the nucleus of the creative impulse, these elemetns serve every art form: acting a character, writing a novel, creating music, dance, sculpture, painting.""

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

"One impression I had was how zero zero gravity is."