Steven Stechschulte

“You could share sports, games, recorded shows of every kind; you could pursue hobbies, studies, even research; you could teach two or three interested shipmates something you were knowledgeable about, such as a skill or a language; you could help arrange live entertainment, a play or a concert or whatever; you could think about questions that were not trivial but for which there had always somehow been too many distractions; you could simply talk with someone, long conversations, perhaps over a drink or two, and get to know that person better.”
― Poul Anderson, Starfarers

“That’s the beauty of mountain climbing, Jack thought. It strips away the ego. You can’t tell the true measure of a human being until he’s been living in a tent under squalid conditions for weeks on end. You”
― Kevin Tinto, Ice