I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.
“Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.”
“In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.”