Quotes by : Iain Banks

The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side....

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

Yes of course I know it's all a dream. Isn't everything?

Oh, no, Cameron; I believe we're born free of sin and free of guilt. It's just that we all catch it,....

Hey, Wrobik; cheer up, yeah? You're going to shoot down a fucking starship. It'll be an experience.

there is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils--the fear speaks for itself, the comfort comes....

I sucked that smoke in and made it part of me, joined mystically with the universe right at that point,....

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

Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had.

Och, stop being so sensitive, Prentice; it isn't much fun getting old. One of the few pleasures that....