"Hyperion" Quotes

Time, which sees all things, has found you again.

We all have our time machines, don't we? Those that take us back are memories... and those that carry us forward, are dreams.

There are no answers, only choices.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

Good fiction should be truer than journalism and truer than history.

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Sometimes a tree has to be bent in order to grow straight.

Fear is a heartless teacher.

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

The mysteries of God are the most vital concern to all human beings, whatever their race or religion.