Quote

The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.

Dan Simmons

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dan Simmons
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: April 4
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Peoria
Illinois
Deprives
Passionately
Sleep
Problem
Much
Love

More quotes by Dan Simmons

Image
If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.
Dan Simmons
Image
Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.
Dan Simmons
Image
Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described.
Dan Simmons
Image
Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.
Dan Simmons
Image
There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.
Dan Simmons
Image
The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.
Dan Simmons
Image
Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.
Dan Simmons
Image
As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction
Dan Simmons
Image
Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.
Dan Simmons
Image
It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
Dan Simmons
Image
The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.
Dan Simmons
Image
Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.
Dan Simmons
Image
The 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 Simmons
Image
No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.
Dan Simmons
Image
No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
Dan Simmons
Image
Mobs have passions, not brains.
Dan Simmons
Image
As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted
Dan Simmons
Image
In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.
Dan Simmons
Image
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
Dan Simmons
Image
Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.
Dan Simmons