A biography for John Phillipshasn’t been written yet.
“If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.”
“We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.”
“Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.”
“We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.”
“Goodness without knowledge... is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous.... Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind. Many men went a walking and many crippled men, did not.”
“It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.”
“It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.”
“Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can.”
“Waves crack with wicked fury against me ship's hull while ocean currents rage as the full moon rises o're the sea." (Cutthroat's Omen: A Crimson Dawn)”
“Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.”