"The rocket was beautiful. In conception it had been shaped by an artist to break a chain that had bound the human race ever since we first gained consciousness of earth's gravity and all it's analogs ..."
- Michael Chabon
"Okay baby, let's take this rocket to Uranus. This hoor is perfect, and she can act as well."
- Irvine Welsh
"If there’s a zeppelin, it’s alternate history. If there’s a rocketship, it’s science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses, it’s fantasy. A book with swords and horses in it can be turned into sc..."
- Debra Doyle
"It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven."
- Wernher von Braun
"The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet."