“Celestials is a soapy space opera. Perhaps a spacey soap opera.”

“Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.”

“Life is an X-rated soap opera.”

“Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]”

“Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.”

“Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.”

“What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.”