Re: eddie/steve
[A laugh.] That's a smart plan, very clever. Any general can be intimidating, but a dead one especially.
It's your home. I don't know if I could handle space. I'm having enough of a shock adjusting to now. [...] Did it help you figure stuff out?
Why not—about the scientists, I mean? [...] I envy all the brains on the team. They talk in an entirely different language than anything I can comprehend, but I think I can agree that most of them think of themselves [...] let's say, highly. [...] But your wife, even when you were [...] screwing up, she accepted you? She didn't put you out.