Quotes by : Iain M. Banks

One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

I can understand that people want to feel special and important and so on, but that self-obsession seems....

The Culture gives us so much, but in fact it’s only taking things away from us, lobotimizings everybody....

What, anyway, was he to say? That intelligence could surpass and excel the blind force of evolution,....

Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed," he said. "And I think they know in their hearts....

The game’s the thing. That’s the conventional wisdom, isn’t it? The fun is what matters, not the....

The right place; that was what he was looking for. The right place. Place was all important, place meant....

There is something about the very idea of a city which is central to the understanding of a planet like....

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