Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.
Dan SimmonsI loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.
Dan SimmonsPain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.
Dan Simmons