I wasn’t ready to believe in ghosts, but that’s the thing about empirical experience: it’s the real thing. - Ben Aaronovitch

Lives to act, poor thing, it's all he ever wanted out of life."
"Except he's dead," I said.
"I know," said Mr. Punch. "Isn't the universe wonderful.

If they were ugly, Peter, would you care half so much?" asked Nightingale. "There are some hideous things out there that can talk and reason, and I wonder if you would be quite so quick to rush to their defense."
"Maybe not," I said. "But that just makes me shallow, it doesn't make me wrong.

I’m an old-fashioned copper–I don’t believe in breaking the laws of thermodynamics.