Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the action is for the next thousand years....The characteristic of human nature, and perhaps our simian branch of the family, is curiosity and exploration. When we stop doing that, we won't be humans anymore. I've seen far more in my lifetime than I ever dreamed. Many of our problems on Earth can only be solved by space technology....The next step is in space. It's inevitable.

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

That's one of those meaningless and unanswerable questions the mind keeps returning to endlessly, like the tongue exploring a broken tooth.

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.