Calum Ross

“Strange that people are happy to adopt epithets they would fight to the death to throw off had they been imposed.”
― Iain M. Banks, Look to Windward

“Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.”
― Iain M. Banks

“The point is: what happens in heaven?'

'Unknowable wonderfulness?'

'Nonsense. The answer is nothing. Nothing can happen because if something happens, in fact if something can happen, then it doesn't represent eternity. Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change.'

'If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances - and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse - then you don't have life after death; you just have death.”
― Iain M. Banks, Look to Windward

“I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.”
― Iain M. Banks