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

“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.”

If you run everywhere you miss stuff that you might have been better off noticing—just saying.