Best Iain Banks Quotations
- One should never mistake pattern for meaning. Inspirational
- One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve. Excess
- But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird . . . but how could you be… Animal
- The bomb lives only as it is falling. Bomb
- If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me! Badly
- The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE crunch. THE END Bang
- ...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry… Ah
- 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… Almost Immediately
- The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. Fiction
- 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… Always Reminded