We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.

We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude.

I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm.

There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.

Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.

I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

It's very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home.

A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.

Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you so can the things it brought.

But Shelley had a hyperthyroid face.

The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer, ' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'

I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.

I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but you try to understand them and you're in big trouble.

It’s amazing how much you’re missing in a depressive state until you start to come out on the other side. It’s like breathing again after being underwater for far too long.

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

Life's been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder.

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.