Cyrus was a musician?" I asked. "He played the alto sax." "And he played jazz?" Another brief smile. "Is there any other kind of music? - Ben Aaronovitch

I want assurances," said Zach.
"You can have my word," I said.
"No disrespect, Peter," he said, "but I don't want a promise from the monkey, I want it from the organ grinder.

As police you can live with the violence, the squalor and the stupidity—it’s the waste of people’s futures that really grinds you down.

Here the bland 1930s art deco stylings of the station gave way to the horror that was the 1980s where every public building was deliberately crafted to look as much like a urinal as possible.