In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland's status as a separate nation.

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.

Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.

Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.

It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a prayer, a summoning, an incantation murmured under the breath as the torchlights sink lower and the forest looms taller and the wolves howl louder and the fire prepares for its submission to the encroaching dark.

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.