“…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?”
“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.”
“In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.”
“Now all the mountains had been conquered and astronauts had walked in space. There were no more islands on earth—no matter how small—left to be discovered.”
“The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.”
“They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space.""Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?”