Dan Simmons Quotes

I desperately want to talk to her now. I want to ask her who it was who so deftly crafted and shaped the legend that was our love.

It was as if they had climbed the last hill in creation.

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

Eagles are extinct, " grumbled Morpurgo. "Perhaps they should have attacked the sky. It betrayed them.

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

So many important things pass quickly without being understood at the time. So many powerful moments are buried beneath the absurd

At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.

The Hegemony had known how to treat cancer, but most of the gene-tailoring knowledge and technology had been lost after the Fall.

My intellect was my greatest vanity.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.