Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.
Iain BanksI just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
Iain BanksEven galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.
Iain Banks