Jimmy

“Human anatomy is horribly unsuited for outer space. The astroengineers lost sleep over this but not the science fiction writers, who being artists simply didn't mention it.”
― Stanisław Lem, Peace on Earth

“There's this magical place,' he says with mock solemnity, 'called a library--I don't know if you've heard of it, but they have books, and also newspaper, and back issues of newspapers...”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I am Gravity, I am That against which the Rocket must struggle, to which the pre-historic wastes submit and are transmuted to the very substance of History.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow