Iain Banks Quote

Sorrow be damned and all your plans. Fuck the faithful, fuck the committed, the dedicated, the true believers; fuck all the sure and certain people prepared to maim and kill whoever got in their way; fuck every cause that ended in murder and a child screaming.

Against a Dark Background ISBN 1-85723-179-1 (UK) ISBN 0-553-29225-0 (US). - Against a Dark Background (1993)