Shepard: What are you running for? Charles Saracino: I'm seeking one of the five spacer seats in Parliament. They have certain baroque conditions for a citizen to be able to vote for them. Charles Saracino: You have to spend more than six months a year in space. But you can't have stayed in any one settled system for more than a month.

Take it easy on the roller coasters or you're going to chuck up your lunch.

Then gan he thinke, perforce with sword and targe / Her forth to fetch, and Proteus to constraine; / But soone he gan such folly to forthinke againe.

Albert Sabin, medical researcher