I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

— Dan Simmons

I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.

— Dan Simmons

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made

— Dan Simmons

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

— Dan Simmons

In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.

— Dan Simmons

In Theo – quiet, efficient Theo – to get him through the morning. Trusting in luck to get him through the day. Trusting in the drinking at Cicero’s to get him through the night. Trusting in the unimportance of his posting to get him through life.

— Dan Simmons

I take my favorite and most promising lads to the theater,” said [Sherlock] Holmes. “I'd say that if they were born into better circumstances many would have grown up to be MP’s, but in truth most are too smart and too honest for Parliament.

— Dan Simmons

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

— Dan Simmons

It's hard to die. Harder to live

— Dan Simmons

It was as if they had climbed the last hill in creation.

— Dan Simmons