“Have fun,” she says and releases me. “Make trouble.” — Ben Aaronovitch

You make a plan without intelligence—you might as well not have a plan at all.

“Are there aliens?” Simon asks Indigo.

“Not that I know of,” she says. “Unless you count cats.”

“Are you a practitioner?” I ask. “A wizard?”

“Sorceress, my dear,” she says. “Practitioner is how the gentlemen have styled themselves, as quacks now style themselves as physicians.”