Janet

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“She became aware years later that he had that rarest of gifts: engagement. Whatever he became interested in absorbed him totally during the time of his commitment to it. It was that strangeness that made him close to children. He could talk to them with ease and share the wonder of their understanding.”
― Brian Catling, The Cloven

“He had killed the Bowman Peter Williams, and years later had been tricked into eating his shrivelled head, which seated its longing deep in his marrow and its waking in the empty ventricles of the monster’s leather soul. Now it was waking up.”
― Brian Catling, The Cloven

“I spend my time living close to the animals. I think they have more to teach alive.”
― Brian Catling, The Cloven