Quotes by : Iain Banks

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

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

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

Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza."Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the....

It's like a sealed, forgotten chamber in me; I shan't feel complete until I've discovered its entrance.'....

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

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

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

Everything about us, everything around us, everything we know and can know of is composed ultimately....

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