Gass 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 SimmonsWords are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.
Dan SimmonsThis is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.
Dan Simmons