Freedom is being whole on your own and not needing somebody else to complete you.

Timaset didn’t need a ship – especially not a flying museum piece! And as far as he knew, a dodgy plasma injector could drop you smack into a wormhole ending somewhere on the other side of the universe with no way back. Well, he could always sell the damn thing. Couldn’t he? He could use the money. Damn, he could always use the money! Maybe the crew would want to buy it over from him?

It’s a general rule – a law of space, as it was a law of the sea in the old days, that ships had to respond to distress calls. Unless of course it places their own lives in danger. Bearing this thought in mind, as you can probably tell by my writing, my fingers are beginning to tremble slightly.

I’m sure when you run it through the interweb just now, or if you are from a military ship, through your own database – you will see that you have stumbled across a relic of one of those great mysteries of deep space, and probably one of those missing ships people like to write spooky stories about. Well, whatever they wrote, buddy, they got it wrong. You can take it from me.

You cannot reason with unreasonable people

If you hate others in the name of God, you should be looking within to see where it stopped being about God and where it started being about YOU.

If you stick your head in the sand like an ostrich, pretending you don't exist – why get upset when the world agrees with you?

Sorry to disappoint you, parents – but when your kids come out as gay, bi or transgender, it is not about you.

You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down.