No! Get away from me, you wittering purple rogues! Away and become bankers the lot of you—admit what you really love! - Iain Banks

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

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

So," she said, "living all this time has been to no purpose, basically."
"True, but that hardly distinguishes me from anybody else, does it?"
"But shouldn't it, or there's no point?"
"No. Living either never has any point, or is always its own point; being a naturally cheery soul, I lean toward the latter. However, just having done more of it than another person doesn't really make much difference.