Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons
Dan Simmonsis an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 April 1948
CountryUnited States of America
love love-is lust
Love is nothing but lust misspelled.
essence violence aberration
You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.
self way waste
A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
sex pain mistake
To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.
sleep good-things gravity
... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.
loyalty love-is dust
In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.
passion brain
Mobs have passions, not brains.
expression once-upon-a-time brain
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another intelligence that it would be the result of a huge project ... a great mass of silicon and ancient transistors and chips and circuit boards ... a machine with lots of networking circuits, in other words, aping-if you will pardon the expression-the human brain in form and function. Of course, AIs did not evolve that way. They sort of slipped into existence when we humans were looking the other way.
mobility doe twins
Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion
pain knowing fullness
There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.
war lessons may
Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.
dream machines sometimes
Sometimes ... dreams are all that separate us from the machines.
matter events masters
It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.
economy petroleum
Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.