It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
Dan SimmonsDoing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
Dan SimmonsThe past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.
Dan SimmonsReligion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.
Dan SimmonsThere were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked it. Conservative columnists acidly pointed out that hungry people don't steal stereo systems first and called for a crackdown in law enforcement. All of the reasoned editorials sounded hollow in light of the perverse randomness of the event. It was as if only a thin wall of electric lighting protected the great cities of the world from total barbarism.
Dan Simmons