One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.
Iain BanksThere's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.
Iain BanksThe trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
Iain BanksMr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.
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