"I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process."

“I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up”

“When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or honesty; dejected eyes confessing, to most judgments, guilt or folly.”

“The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer”

Source : Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.1086, Spectra

“That's what gives people hope - that you can still love someone from afar and you can still have those feelings across an ocean.”

“At our best, we are all teachers”

“Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space...All that negative stuff. All the pain...It just floted away from me, I just floated away from it...up and away...”

Source : "Junk". Book by Melvin Burgess, 1996.

“For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.”

Source : Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. January 10, 2007.

“No more wars, no more bloodshed, and no more threats.”