You are joking. You must want money. You work for money, don't you?'I want it very badly,' I said. 'But I can't take this money. It wouldn't belong to me, I would belong to it. It would expect me to do things, and I would have to do them. Sit on the lid of this mess of yours, the way Marfeld did, until dry rot sets in.

— Ross Macdonald

When something is dirty you wash it. That's what my mum always said.Yet...When you have dirty money and you launder it, people jump up and down.I guess that's life.

— Anthony T. Hincks