Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.
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 SimmonsYou treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.
Dan Simmons