A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.
When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried
I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.
It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder
If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No, no way. ' But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.
Why don't you light that candle ?
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P. C. S. : Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.
Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence.
If I had my choice, I wish this country, America, were running great. I wish I could stand up and say, "Wow, this place is really running fantastically. "
Technically, I'm a New Yorker.