The news channels are spasming, or frothing, or whatever it is they do.
Iain Banks Quotes
1954–2013 Scotland
Iain Menzies Banks (February 16, 1954 – June 9, 2013), officially Iain Banks, was a Scottish writer. As Iain M.
- Scotland
- Novelists
- Poets
- Science fiction authors
- Short story writers
Also known as: Banks, Iain
185 quotes
Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.
The State of the Art (1991)
Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.
The State of the Art (1991)
Faith is the eye that sees nothing and rejoices in it.
Feersum Endjinn (1994)
The State of the Art (1991)
Inversions (1998)
Never underestimate the sheer selfishness and stupidity of people.
The Hydrogen Sonata (2013)
Inversions (1998)
Transition (2009)
The truth is the truth. You tell it even when it hurts or it loses value even when it doesn’t.
The Hydrogen Sonata (2013)
There is an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.
Look to Windward (2000)
Surface Detail (2010)
Transition (2009)
You can draw the blinds in a brothel, but people still know what you’re doing.
Inversions (1998)
It rarely paid to frighten the masses, and it never paid to confuse them.
The Hydrogen Sonata (2013)
One should never regret one’s excesses, only one’s failures of nerve.
The Hydrogen Sonata (2013)
People often behave badly when they are trying to prove a point.
Inversions (1998)
Transition (2009)
Transition (2009)
One should never mistake pattern…for meaning.
The Hydrogen Sonata (2013)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Iain Banks (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.