The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last.

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

Making money isn't something to be ashamed of. There's a feeling now that if you have money you must have got it by some kind of shady dealing or being an MP.

After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.

Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.