Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.
Dan SimmonsThe truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
Dan SimmonsThe future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.
Dan SimmonsI know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. "We have spread out through the galaxy like cancer cells through a living body, Duré. We multiply without thought to the countless life forms that must die or be pushed aside so that we may breed and flourish. We eradicate competing forms of intelligent life.
Dan Simmons