It’s even more important to prosecute police who’ve broken the law than it is to prosecute anybody else… — Iain M. Banks

I only tell them that because that’s what they like to hear, what they want to hear. That’s one of the lessons I’ve learned, isn’t it? You can go a long way just telling people what they want to hear. Of course, you got to be careful, and you got to choose the right people, but still, know that I mean?

One of the wisest things anybody ever said to me was that if all you ever care about is money, money is all that will ever care for you.

We had to assume that solipsism was nonsense because otherwise everything else around us was nonsense and irrelevant, and the result of a kind of self-inflicted deceit.