A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

- Iain Banks

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

- Iain Banks

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

- Iain Banks

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

- Iain Banks

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

- Iain Banks

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…

- Iain Banks

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

- Iain Banks

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…

- Iain Banks

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

- Iain Banks