Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

- Dan Simmons

To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it…

- Dan Simmons

No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

- Dan Simmons

In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.

- Dan Simmons

Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another intel…

- Dan Simmons

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

- Dan Simmons

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 …

- Dan Simmons

Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

- Dan Simmons

There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have p…

- Dan Simmons