“It is true that we Russians have sent only four doctors into space in forty years of flight, but still I might have had chance to fly to Mir or International Space Station except for one fact. This is that I cannot urinate—is this the right word, Mr. Roth?—I cannot urinate on wheel of bus.”
“For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”
“This space station [Yang Liwei] was little more than a giant Orbital Denial Station. If those charges were to detonate, the debris...any future space launch would be grounded for years. It was a "Scorched Space" policy. "If we can't have it, neither can anyone else.”
“Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.”
“I have all the things I need to succeed in life, including a bucket of unicorn urine.”
“The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.”