There are no uninteresting fates, and each man takes away the universe when he dies. - Dmitri Bilenkin

I’m sure that the fantastic descriptions of interstellar travel in the science fiction of the last century made many a heart skip a beat. I really don’t want my account to be a wet blanket, but the truth is the truth: there is nothing duller than space flight.

Life is full of situations cut short, unfinished observations, everything that doesn’t fit in the parameters of a story that would make sense to strangers. We keep them to ourselves and we carry them away with us.

I'm not saying that you don't exist. You exist falsely.
"But I'm flying!"
"That's the point. A man can't fly on his own. That would be a miracle. People with little grounding in physics are apt to believe anything, but we know that there is no place for miracles in nature."