One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state

Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.