Robert > Robert's Quotes

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
― Albert Einstein

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“-"Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, "is making you smile about a disaster?"

-"Well, first, I didn´t cause it! Nothing to do with me, hands clean. Always a bonus.”
― Iain M. Banks, Surface Detail

“It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those”
― Iain Banks

“If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!”
― Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

“My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it,”
― Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games

“All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now.”
― Iain M. Banks, Surface Detail

“Sometimes what goes without saying is best said anyway.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood