A guilty system recognizes no innocents..

I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters..

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….

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!.

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..

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

You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice..

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal.….

My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing ….

I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place..

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

I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well, judging by the way people who are normally quit….

"I think I know the real reason." "Which is?" "Alcohol in the dust clouds. Goddamn stuff is everywhere. Any lousy species ever invents the telescope ….

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve..

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

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

"One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr. Gurgeh." Hamin waved the pipestem ….

Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling..

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun..

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk..