# Quote — Andy Weir, The Martian

> As you can see, this plan provides many opportunities for me to die in a fiery explosion.

- Author: [Andy Weir](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-weir.md)
- Book: [The Martian](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-weir/the-martian.md)
- Page: 29
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andy_Weir#The_Martian_(2014)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-weir/the-martian/as-you-can

## More from this book

> As a chemist, Vogel knew how to make a bomb. In fact, much of his training was to avoid making them by mistake.

p. 358 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-weir/the-martian/as-a-chemist.md)

> Then I sat for a moment, dumbstruck that my plan had actually worked.

p. 318 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-weir/the-martian/then-i-sat.md)

> This allowed me to do what writers treasure more than anything else: catch the reader off-guard. There’s nothing better than knowing you’re going to outwit with the reader. And the type of people who read sci-fi are very difficult to outwit.

p. 385 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-weir/the-martian/this-allowed-me.md)