NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.

Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.