Jan Aldergate

“Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than 5 million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning. So that when you look at them and think, "what a lazy, good-for-nothing animal," they are, in fact, working very, very hard.”
― Kate Atkinson

“The plumber plodded along in silence, like a man who has learned to be polite to lunatics through dealing with civil engineers.”
― Lindsey Davis, Shadows in Bronze