Quotes by : Dan Simmons

My intellect was my greatest vanity.

That’s what writers and artists and creators do, boy. Listen to the Void and try to hear dead folks’....

Sol wanted to know how any ethical system – much less a religion so indomitable that it had survived....

The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green....

[The Void Which Binds] actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for....

But, Dad…” She hesitated. “It will mean raising me all over again. It means suffering through my....

No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand....

As Ummon and the other Masters teach, it explains why the giraffe evolved a long neck but never why the....

The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite....

The Chinese poet George Wu ... recorded on his comlog: "Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see....