Austin Reynolds

"There isn't any season here; winter and summer are gone. So is spring, and autumn. It isn't any particular night or morning; it's space and space."

"You see. You have no mental evidence. That's what I want, a mental evidence I can feel. I don't want physical evidence, proof you have to go out and drag in. I want evidence that you can carry in your mind and always touch and smell and feel. But there's no way to do that. In order to believe in a thing you've got to carry it with you. You cant carry the earth, or a man, in your pocket. I want a way to do that, carry things with me always, so I can believe in them. How clumsy to have to go to all the trouble of going out and bringing in something terribly physical to prove something. I hate physical things because they can be left behind and become impossible to believe in."

"I can only say that I looked at the page with my name under the title. By Joseph Hitchcock, But it was some other man. There was no way to prove-actually prove, really prove- that that man was me."

"All the gaps and space. And that's how I got to thinking about the stars. I thought how I'd like to be in a rocket ship, in space, in nothing, going on into nothing, with just a thin something, a thing eggshell of metal holding me, going on away from all the something with gaps in them that couldn't prove themselves. I knew then that the only happiness for me was space."