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
life blessing long
No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.
life loss way
Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
absurd seems
Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described.
diversity design evolution
Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.
pain things-in-life interesting
Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.
powerful names voice
The powerful have received their share of the world's attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil. The victim's remain the faceless masses. Numbers. Mass graves. These monsters have fertilized our century with the mass graves of their victims and it is time that the powerless had names and faces -- and voices.
stupidity paid
Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.
book ideas shadow
Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the concept of the approximation of the shadow of Truth vertically through time as well as longitudinally through knowledge.
blow reality wind
The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.
ideas cubes gas
Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.
life retreat
Life doesn't retreat.
love matter structure
Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.
love sleep too-much
The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.
love love-is lust
Love is nothing but lust misspelled.