The prisons are full of people with poor impulse control and a lack of foresight. - Ben Aaronovitch

“Do you have another plan?” I asked.
“No,” said Leslie. “I just want you to be careful. Just because you think you know what you’re doing doesn’t mean you actually know what you’re doing.”
“I’m glad we clarified that,” I said.

Are you smarter than me?"
"I'll answer that when you give me a working definition of intelligence.

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