Michael Gleason

“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

“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

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy