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

My hand was shaking a little and the pin proved harder to pull than I expected—I guess that’s a safety feature on a grenade.

Sometimes when someone tells you not to go somewhere, it’s better not to go there.

Given that he was writing in the late eighteenth century, I like to cut him slack.