Michael Gleason

“Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does”
― Groucho Marx

“That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Well maybe you don’t want to do it, and maybe I don’t want to do it,” Carolyn replied, “but there are young women in our country who want to fly in space. And they should be given that opportunity.”
― Loren Grush, The Six: The Extraordinary Story of the Grit and Daring of America's First Women Astronauts

“And because of that, the smile was like the shadow of your own death. Evrim’s existence implicated yours. It implied you, too, were nothing more than a machine—a swarm of preprogrammed impulses iterating endlessly. If Evrim was a conscious thing, and made, then maybe you were made as well. A construct made of different materials. A skeleton walking around, sheathed in meat, fooled into thinking it has free will. A thing that had occurred by accident. Or a thing made on a whim, to see if it could be done.”
― Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea