Quotes by : Iain M. Banks

This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player....

I'm a fucking starship I'm allowed to cheat.

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

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

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

A temple was worth a dozen barracks; a militia man carrying a gun could control a small unarmed crowd....

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself.

The one on the left," Worthil said, "is a male, carrying the testes and penis. The middle one is equipped....

In life you hoped to do what you could but mostly you did what you were told and that was the end of....

it had been briefed that when Culture people didn’t speak Marain for a long time and did speak another....