Mark Watney

"I'm in a Chinese lab. Pretty great for someone who's supposed to be dead."

"I've been a botanist, an engineer, a maintenance man, a meteorologist, a translator, a doctor, and a whole lot of other things."

"I'm alive, and I'll stay alive. I need to survive."

"I'm going to have to push this thing to its limits and hope it doesn't break."

"The Hermes crew trusted me. I can't let them down."

"I owe these people everything. The least I can do is stay alive."

"I've got to work with what I have. No excuses."

"Every day I survive is a victory."

"I'm alone here, but I'm not giving up. Not today. Not ever."

"The thing about space is it doesn't care about your feelings."

"I need to think like a scientist, not an emotional human."

"Every problem starts out as a catastrophe and ends with a solution."

"I should probably do science."

"Trust the process. Trust yourself."

"They'll come for me. I just have to keep living."

"I'm the greatest botanist on Mars. That's not really a competitive field right now."

"I have to accept what I can't change and focus on what I can."

"Every day is a test. I just have to keep passing."

"I'm going to survive this. Failure is not an option I'm considering."

"Science saved my life. Science is everything to me now."

"You can't make mistakes when you're alone on Mars."

"I'm not just surviving. I'm going to thrive."

"Home is where people are. And I'll get there."

"I love the challenges. I love the problems. I love proving I can solve them."

"I'm pretty much f***ed."

"I'm going to have to science the sh*t out of this."

"At some point, everything's gonna go south on you."

"I'm the greatest botanist on this planet."

"Everything goes right and nothing goes wrong."

"I can live on potatoes alone."