If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction—and ultimately, without a major resolu… - Jasper Fforde

Having to mix with dimwits is hideously boring. Great-Uncle Mycroft put it best when he said that for a genius this planet is excruciatingly dull, only made briefly more illuminating when another genius happens along.

Sadly, a lifetime in law enforcement tends not to create a bunch of grateful villains happy that you have shown them the error of their ways, but rather a lot of disgruntled ne’er-do-wells eager for payback.

Don’t ever call me mad, Mycroft. I’m not mad. I’m just...well, differently moraled, that’s all.