Dan Simmons Quotes

My intellect was my greatest vanity.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

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

For seven centuries the existence of Grand Unification Theories and hyperstring post-quantum physics and Core-given understanding of the universe as self-contained and boundless, without Big Bang singularities or corresponding endpoints, had pretty much eliminated any role of God—primitively anthropomorphic or sophisticatedly post-Einsteinian—even as a caretaker or pre-Creation former of rules. The modern universe, as machine and man had come to understand it, needed no Creator; in fact, allowed no Creator. Its rules allowed very little tinkering and no major revisions. It had not begun and would not end, beyond cycles of expansion and contraction as regular and self-regulated as the seasons on Old Earth

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.

I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.

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

The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.