If you run everywhere you miss stuff that you might have been better off noticing—just saying. - Ben Aaronovitch

The old days," said Smith. "Isn't that what you're asking about? Because I was a respectable businessman."
"But Smithy," said Stephanopoulis. "I don't believe in respectable businessmen. I've been a copper for more than five minutes. And the constable here doesn't think you're respectable either, because it happens he is a card-carrying member of the Workers' Revolutionary Party and so regards all forms of property as a crime against the proletariat."
That one caught me by surprise and the best I could manage was "Power to the people.

Low sample size—one of the reasons why magic and science are hard to reconcile.

“Your father,” I said. “What does he really want?”
“What any father wants,” said Oxley. “The respect of his children.”
I nearly said that not all fathers were worthy of respect, but I managed to keep my gob shut and anyway not everyone had a dad like mine.