Neil Gaiman

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

[…] although of course the firm had changed hands many times over the centuries, […] But the box has always been part of the chattels, as it were.