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

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. "
— Isaac Asimov

"We pursue our own solitary passions and seldom look up, seldom sense that it is we ourselves who form the swelling flood of history, the dark constellation of events we would sooner lay at the feet of others. Until the storm finally gathers, and then we look up and we grow afraid, and we say: This is not what I intended."
— Thomas A. Day

"Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying."
— Iain M. Banks (Against A Dark Background)

"People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped."
— Iain M. Banks (Against A Dark Background)