I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out th….

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it..

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides..

After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink..

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history.

A guilty system recognizes no innocents..

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

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

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….

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

One should never mistake pattern for meaning..

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

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..

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

Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy..

Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practicall….

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed..

Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who….

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness..

But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird . . . but how could you be a seabird? If you were a sea….