Alien Night on Union Station (EarthCent Ambassador, #2)

by E.M. Foner

Either dogs were part of a spacefaring race that had regressed after colonizing compatible worlds, or canines had been seeded as part of some grand plan to which humanoids weren’t privy.

Joe, always mindful of the old rule that you should hold a lady by the waist and a bottle by the neck, filled the two champagne flutes.

True complexity can only be understood through history, not by looking at the present state of some seemingly complicated construct.

It’s just like the real world. If you tie up all of your capital in an investment without a liquid market, you may as well be broke.

“The imminent danger was a global economic collapse, brought on by your bizarre financial system and your global addiction to pyramid schemes.