You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice. - Iain Banks

She took a deep breath. Suddenly, she felt quite entirely sober. “Is this as important as I think it is?”
“Almost certainly much more so.”
“Oh,” she said, “fuck.”

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet?
It would be appropriate.
When in Rome; burn it.

He was tall and very dark-skinned and he had fabulously blond hair and a voice that could raise bumps on your skin at a hundred meters, or, better still, millimeters.