The Moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.

— Arthur C. Clarke

For when I look at the Moon I do not see a hostile, empty world. I see the radiant body where man has taken his first steps into a frontier that will never end.

— David R. Scott, Commander Apollo 15, 'National Geographic,' Volume 144, No 3, September 1973.

Ten years ago the Moon was an inspiration to poets and an opportunity for lovers. Ten years from now it will be just another airport.

— Emmanuel G. Mesthene

What good is the Moon? You can't buy it or sell it.

— Ivan F. Boesky, Wall Street broker convicted of insider trading

The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the Moon that pulls the tides, and the Moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the Moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist.... When we describe the Moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness.

— D.H. Lawrence, 'Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D.H. Lawrence, pt. 4,' 1930.