Quotes by : Iain M. Banks

It's luck. All is luck when skill's played out. It was luck left me with a face that didn't fit in Contact,....

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

I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist....

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

It seemed perverse to some, but for all their apparent militarism the Gzilt had remained peaceful over....

Everything was a metaphor; all things were something other than themselves. The pain, for example, was....

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

A new collection of matter and information to present to the universe and to which it in turn will be....

You been mud wrestling..?' 'Only with my conscience.' 'Really? Who won?' 'Well, it was one of those rare....

Imagine a vast and glittering ocean seen from a great height. It stretches to the clear curved limit....