Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.

There are these two kinds of patriotism. There's blind patriotism, unflagging patriotism. And then there's the patriotism that says I live in a democracy and it's very important for the health and the life of this democracy that it get better all the time, not get worse.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.