Author of quotes: Dan Simmons

It sold nineteen million copies "of a Dying Earth-2".
- Well, - summed up the Tirena. Audience formed.
- But the first "Dying Earth" sold trimillennium edition!
- "The way of the pilgrim", - she said. - "Mein Kampf". It happens once in a century. And even less often.
- But three billion...
'Listen,' said tyrena. - In the twentieth century on Old Earth was a network of snack bars. In them the meat of dead cows fried in rendered fat, adding a little bit of carcinogens, then wrapped in plastic synthesized from petroleum, and sold nine hundred billion servings a year. And the people ate. So.

A terrible tragedy of separation from their young children, even short, is that during your absence they have become very different people.

The conclusion of killing a man two inseparable demons: restlessness and inattention.

As a teenager he had read Darwin and learned from him the belief that a person should understand their insignificant place in the world and more not to think about it and even pyramids and other "wonders of architecture" short-lived, as sand castles on Brighton beach.

Abuse of language, he perceived the same way as unjustified cruelty to dogs or horses. Not to say that his attitude to horses and dogs was so sentimental, but he once remarked to Watson that the number of people saying "wear a hat" or "tired", it would be possible to reduce several well-aimed shots and notes with the notes pinned to the victims chest.

- History is a strange mechanism, - said Holmes, puffing on his pipe. She needs the blood of the martyrs - not important, real or imaginary - as a machine needs lubrication.

In life so often happens: things seems to be minor cause the most pain.

... temptation is stronger, the stricter the ban.

The universe is not a machine and it is not inexorable. The coming of the Christ has taught us that in this world nothing is inevitable. The outcome is always questionable. To choose light or darkness, the person decides for himself, or rather, a rational being.

Evolution leads to the appearance of man, and the man slowly and painfully acquires humanity...

... love is woven into the fabric of the universe as firmly as gravity and the opposite of matter and antimatter. A place for God, no matter what it was, not in the webs between the walls, not in the singular cracks of the pavement, not somewhere outside, in front of or behind the event... but in the fabric of things. It evolves along with the evolving universe. Knows how to learn is able to the knowledge of the elements of the universe, loves how people like

Pain and darkness is our lot since the fall. But we must have hope that we will be able to rise above That consciousness can evolve, to move to a new level, more sympathetic than this universe, programmed to indifference.

In an era of unrest and upheaval on the political scene, the leaders, the very sky, it seemed destined for this role and, as it turns out, however, associated inseparably with the destinies of his time.

... the essence of human life lies not in the so-called commemorative days like weddings and triumphs, which stuck in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the monotonous flow of everyday events: a weekend when every family member is busy with his own Affairs, casual encounters, trifling conversations, which are immediately forgotten... but the amount of these watches represents something very important and eternal.