Ian Williamson

“Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“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, The Fall of Hyperion