R is for Rocket

Tolerate them but give them none of your time. You only live once, remember."

And he stood there for a long long time, just looking and looking out into space and the deep night «t the burning and the burning of ten billion billion white and lovely candles. . . .

Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.

Gifted with life, the least we can do is preserve and pass on the gift to infinity. That's a goal worth shooting for.

He worked deep under the ground, Chris, and never saw the stars."

The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them.