The Martian

"Humans are adaptable animals."

"I'd have to be really, really smart to pull this off."

"I'm not stranded. I'm going to colonize the crap out of this place."

"Water is not the issue. Calories are the issue."

"I'm the best botanist on Mars. Therefore, I'm the best botanist anywhere."

"I'm gonna have to trust my math on this one."

"The closest I'll get to having a friend is this computer."

"Physics is wonderful because it makes no distinction between the beautiful and the ugly."

"I'm gonna live out my days as a botanist on Mars."

"Every sol is a victory."

"I don't actually have infinite water."

"Isolation is the great test of a man's humanity."

"I'm gonna make a barter system with myself."

"I'm absolutely, completely, thoroughly in the dark about whether this will work."

"Time to cowboy up and be a man."

"There are a lot of things that have to go right for this to work."

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

"Another day on Mars, another improbable adventure."

"I love doing this. I'm not denying it."

"I will eventually run out of clever ideas."

"Failure is not an option. But it is a possibility."

"I have access to the entire Wikipedia."

"The sun is about 150 million kilometers away. That's 93 million miles. That's how far away it is."

"I'm reduced to calling my datebook 'Disco Fever' and staring at the cover."

"Every problem so far has had a solution I could understand and work through."

"I'm gonna reinvent the wheel here on Mars."

"If this works, I'll be the first person to successfully use a potato-based diet to save their life."

"I can live on potatoes alone, for a long time."

"You're my engineer. I'm your explorer."

"I'm gonna have to be creative."