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

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

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.

The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

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

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.