Quotes by : Iain Banks

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting....

I killed little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general. I had, after....

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost....

Bright morning comes; the bloody-fingered dawn with zealous light sets seas of air ablaze and bends to....

...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere....

...for all its apparent speed, the ship was almost perfectly silent, and he experienced an enervating,....

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about....

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody....

There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.