The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
“There's people in hell who want ice water.”
“Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.”
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.
To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
“The city divided by the river is further divided by racial and lingual differences.”
"Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man."
“Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate”
A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.
“The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.”
“The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.”
trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It's the difference between a penci.
Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.
A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.
Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties
Climate has been changing for billions of years.
The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.
Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.
You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable.
People communicate in Twittering ways. I've learned how to do that.
It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.