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.

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

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.

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 standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.