“I'm just a guy on a planet, orbiting a sun, surrounded by a vast space extending in every direction.”
“Ansel, I'm not the sun, stop orbiting and get in here.”
“Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.”
“Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space, passing from land to land, among peoples, amid events.”
“Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.”
“the tail of a comet can extend millionsof miles into space, always in the opposite direction of the sun, blown by the solar breeze. A comets tail is the closet thing to nothing that anything can be. I love that. The closest thing to nothing.”