The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. - Ray Bradbury

“No,” said the old man, deep under. “I don’t remember anyone winning anywhere any time. War’s never a winning thing, Charlie. You just lose all the time, and the one who loses last asks for terms. All I remember is a lot of losing and sadness and nothing good but the end of it. The end of it, Charles, that was a winning all to itself, having nothing to do with guns.”

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.