Quotes About Dan Simmons

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.

...Data itself... was tolerable. It was the constant nerve-web-expanding pain of context that would kill him.

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

I know the fucking Bible, and there ain't no fucking Book of Leviathan.

Yes. But terrible heresies have proven to be grim truths many times before in the longer history of my Church, Sek Hardeen.

If we had some cheese, we could have a ham-and-cheese sandwich," replies Father Captain de Soya, "if we had some ham.

He felt the scrotum-lifting tension he always experienced when he was an obvious target.

Henry James hated epilogues and refused to use them in his fiction. He said that life granted us no "epilogues", so why should art or literature?

For the thousandth time, I wondered if there were a way to reprogram this autonomous intelligence so that it wasn't such a pain in the ass.

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

At that point Lord Agamemnon, Atreus' son, began shitting whole goats," laughs Orus, speaking loudly enough that several captains turn to frown at us.

Tell me everything you know about the horse, Bottom-san

The road turns and starts climbing where he impacted," said Cameron. Dar winced slightly. He hated the verb-use of nouns such as impact.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.