Dan Simmons

Love is nothing but lust misspelled.

— Dan Simmons

Mobs have passions, not brains.

— Dan Simmons

Sometimes ... dreams are all that separate us from the machines.

— Dan Simmons

Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

— Dan Simmons

“Just as well,” he said. “We have one deus ex machina too many as it is.”

— Dan Simmons

What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

— Dan Simmons

“I meant only to point out that in hopelessness there is always hope.”

— Dan Simmons

Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

— Dan Simmons

If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.

— Dan Simmons

Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.

— Dan Simmons

Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.

— Dan Simmons

“Sometimes,” said General Morpurgo, taking her hand, “dreams are all that separate us from the machines.”

— Dan Simmons

“The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. I”

— Dan Simmons

Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.

— Dan Simmons

“Yes. But terrible heresies have proven to be grim truths many times before in the longer history of my Church, Sek Hardeen.”

— Dan Simmons

“[H]istory viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by…

— Dan Simmons

“There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one's sense of what is real.”

— Dan Simmons

“that strange elasticity of the human heart in finding new relationships, new people to share one’s life with, new potentials.”

— Dan Simmons

“I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is…

— Dan Simmons

Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the…

— Dan Simmons

“Aenea heard the music of the spheres. She resonated with the Void Which Binds, which resonates in turn to sentient life and…

— Dan Simmons

“On the contrary, it made me feel that faith is all the more essential. Pain and darkness have been our lot since…

— Dan Simmons

“Abraham was testing God. By denying the sacrifice at the last moment, by stopping the knife, God had earned the right—in Abraham’s…

— Dan Simmons

“THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER MISUSE OF THIS CHANNEL. YOU ARE DISTURBING OTHERS WHO ARE USING IT TO SERIOUS PURPOSE. ACCESS WILL…

— Dan Simmons

“Among us we represent islands of time as well as separate oceans of perspective. Or perhaps more aptly put, each of us…

— Dan Simmons

I think all the simple things can and do still work - holding your child's hand while walking across the street will…

— Dan Simmons

“... primitive times had required primitive obedience, that later generations evolved to the point where parents offered themselves as sacrifice - as…

— Dan Simmons

There are many other writers whose work I admire tremendously, but none whose work struck me at just the right young age.…

— Dan Simmons

“The cruciform does not like pain. Nor do I but, like the cruciform, I am willing to use it to serve my…

— Dan Simmons

“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of…

— Dan Simmons

Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the…

— Dan Simmons

You've probably heard about the theory of steam-engine time - that even after the steam engine had been invented, it had to…

— Dan Simmons

When I get about five readers I can rub together in one genre, I leave that genre and go somewhere else. And…

— Dan Simmons

The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in…

— Dan Simmons

“He was, in other words, a careful man with careless impulses.”

— Dan Simmons

“Human art, Mahnmut knew, simply transcended human beings.”

— Dan Simmons

“We all retreat into ourselves in some way.”

— Dan Simmons

“The world as we know it is ending, my friends, no matter what happens to us”

— Dan Simmons

His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.

— Dan Simmons

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

— Dan Simmons