Quotes by Iain M. Banks, Matter

“Welcome to the future, she thought, surveying all this wordage and tat. All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness.”

“Ferbin's father had had the same robustly pragmatic view of religion as hed had of everything else. In his opinion, only the very poor and downtrodden really needed religion, to make their laboriou...”

“In life you hoped to do what you could but mostly you did what you were told and that was the end of it.”