Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.
Ray BradburySunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart. These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns.
Ray BradburyTell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.
Ray BradburyNo," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.
Ray Bradbury