Iain Banks Complicity Quotes

#1. I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

Neil Peart

#2. Such is the law of karma. Every action, howsoever innocent, has a reaction, that one has to experience if not in this life, then in the next,' said

Devdutt Pattanaik

#3. In a sense, this is the ultimate validation of capitalism. Its psychological requirements are also the requirements of life and happiness. It is the only system consistent with the requirements of human life.

Edith Packer

#4. I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!

Daphne Oz

#5. Aunt Mari says that the assholes in our lives are our biggest blessings."
"How so?"
"Without them, we'd take the ones who aren't for granted. Assholes give us needed perspective to appreciate the people who really love us.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. Is this something new, having people stomp on you? Is it what I need to do for your pleasure?

Frank Zappa

#8. The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others

Iain Banks

#9. I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can't play. And that eliminates 99 percent of the musicians.

Neil Young

#10. I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

Sam Waterston

#11. How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.

Michael Ondaatje

#12. Let the questions be the curriculum.

Socrates