I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write for; they tend to run on rails.

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

When you break rules, break 'em good and hard

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare becoming a mere lower-class brawl.

The price of being the best is having to be the best.

The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.