You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences.

We need to look at NASA, not as a handout, but as an investment.

It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.

No one with a living room radio that was a piece of furniture at the time would say, gee. I want to carry that around on my hip pocket. That was not a thought until NASA initiated this whole exercise. So there's an influence that's not just spinoff.

We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.

I don't even think much about politicians. I think about the people in the audience who applaud the politicians. They are your fellow countrymen and they're the ones you live with - that should be who we target for education and enlightenment.

I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take for granted will just be weird or extraordinary or just plain dumb when observed by an alien from another civilization.