One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.
Alfred BesterThe whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.
Alfred BesterThis was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.
Alfred Bester