If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.
Dan SimmonsFate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.
Dan SimmonsGass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatozoa attacking an ovum. It might be argued that the Siamese twin infants of word/idea are the only contribution the human species can, will, or should make to the raveling cosmos.
Dan Simmons