Just try telling a teenager that he’s a conformist. Ha! It’s safer to tweak a tiger’s whiskers. Yet who’s most influenced by fads and fashions? Who i… - Dmitri Bilenkin

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."

What used to be an advantage had quickly turned into a liability, proving once more that in the mountains, as in life, nothing comes easily.

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.