Dan Simmons

Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described.

— Dan Simmons

“Have you always used a pen?” “No,” I said, “only when I want to write something worth reading.”

— Dan Simmons

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

— Dan Simmons

“The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals.”

— Dan Simmons

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

— Dan Simmons

We are all eaters of souls.

— Dan Simmons

No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

— Dan Simmons

But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

— Dan Simmons

“We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of…

— Dan Simmons

Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases,…

— Dan Simmons

Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

— Dan Simmons

“Silenus’s true age might be anywhere from ninety to a hundred and fifty standard years. If he were close to the latter…

— Dan Simmons

“There would be no more offerings. Not this day. Not any day. Humankind had suffered enough for its love of gods, its…

— Dan Simmons

There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes…

— Dan Simmons

I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation.…

— Dan Simmons

“guile was no match for the world and that hubris would always be punished by the gods.”

— Dan Simmons

Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.

— Dan Simmons

“The day is perfect and I hate it for being so.”

— Dan Simmons

“... a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.”

— Dan Simmons

“We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of…

— Dan Simmons

“If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends…

— Dan Simmons

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

— Dan Simmons

“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of…

— Dan Simmons

“suddenly understood perfectly why Abraham had agreed to sacrifice Isaac, his son, when the Lord commanded him to do so. It was…

— Dan Simmons

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

— Dan Simmons