"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"We are progeny of not just the Earth, but of the cosmos. And as its progeny it is our duty use the best of our ability and continue that."

"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."

"Everybody's got soul. It's a matter of what condition it's in."

"You are not going to find yourself anywhere except right where you are."

"What I saw was the hoax: Immortals questioning mortality when they should have asked eternity."

"Because I had goodwill for all, / I thought all were my friends. / And then I learned of treachery, / that some preferred my end. / It wasn't the goodwill I felt / that made someone a friend. / What handy day, the one I learned / the meaning of the word. / How good to know my enemies /(though their reasons are absurd!)"

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

"Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money."

"Understanding precedes peace."

"Once someone I was working with said, 'You know, Vanna, some people think about what they're having for lunch tomorrow and you're thinking hundreds of years into the future.'"

"There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it!"

"The true poem rests between the words."

"Love is a quality, not a quantity."

"Thought has no gender."

"Thirty-six million / miles of whispering welcome. / Mars, you called us home."

"The 2suit is a utilitarian garment that functions by itself as a flight suit, and can unzip or attach with velcro and attach to a partner's suit with very lightweight fabric inside that can expand."

"Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you'll never be torn."

"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."

"What appears to us solid is ultimately both a particle and a wavelength, and on that realm everything behaves as both a particle and a wave."

"There are infinite possibilities."

"People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye."

"The realm of quanta is how I have intrinsically approached and viewed reality since I was born."

"Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us."