Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people ar….

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven..

Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through reason and scie….

Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't b….

As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of..

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

Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot..

I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism..

I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, ….

People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to be... a ge….

The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before….

My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it..

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it..

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens..

One should never mistake pattern for meaning..

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite.

A guilty system recognizes no innocents..

I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun….

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-marke….

Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed, and I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the r….

Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change….