12 Views of Iain M. Banks’s Culture

But in the end, it’s still just cleaning a table

It was the Culture’s fault

Oh, they never lie

The bomb lives only as it is falling

A guilty system recognizes no innocents

What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?

Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot

I’m the smartest thing for a hundred light years radius, and by a factor of about a million

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself

We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes

If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!

Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it