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
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.
economy petroleum
Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.
revelations planets whole
The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.
teacher writing common-sense
Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
ignorance routes absolutes
The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
snipers bullets poet
Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.
pain flower grief
Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.