Ocupation: Author
Life: b. April 4, 1948
Birthday: April 4
I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.
source: "Hyperion". Book by Dan Simmons, 1989.
topic: Faith, Sea, Law, Unfeeling, Endless Sea, Small Life