Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle when they tried to think. In a funny sort of way, they were much better at it.

“People are what they do, and what they leave behind”

“Some police forces would believe anything. Not the Metropolitan police, though.…”

“He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. …”

“There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.”