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
art drunk quality
Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
book abandoned finished
No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.
fall serious-illness black
There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.
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.
absurd seems
Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described.
mean reality thinking
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.
grease meat foam
In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.
knows
You have to live to really know things, my love
pain knowing fullness
There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.
pain fall men
Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level ... that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference.
passion brain
Mobs have passions, not brains.
harder hard dies
Its hard to die. Harder to live
data water dolphins
Context is to data what water is to a dolphin
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.