Anything else to report?" he asked. "A creeping sense of existential dread," I said. "Apart from that I'm good. - Ben Aaronovitch

“But I want you to be cautious.”
“Hey,” I said. “Cautious is my middle name.”
“But your first name is Never Knowingly,” said Stephanopoulos. Which got all the laughs it deserved.

Back in the summer I’d made the mistake of telling my mum what I did for a living. Not the police bit, which of course she already knew about, having been at my graduation from Hendon, but the stuff about me working for the branch of the Met that dealt with the supernatural. My mum translated this in her head to “witchfinder,” which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than policeman.

You're probably wondering why I decided to grace you with my presence," he said.
Which was true, since DCIs spend most of their life in their offices or, worse, in other people's offices and conference rooms. "Playing," Seawoll once said, "pin the fucking buzzword on the sodding flow chart.