Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.
Dan SimmonsWords 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.
Dan SimmonsReligion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.
Dan SimmonsNo one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
Dan Simmons