People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?
P. D. JamesFor me, the dead remain dead. If I couldn't believe that, I don't think I could go on living.
P. D. JamesIf from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.
P. D. JamesOf the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct. We don't know why. Some by wanton extinction, some through natural catastrophe, some destroyed by meteorites and asteroids. In the light of these mass extinctions it really does seem unreasonable to suppose that Homo sapiens should be exempt. Our species will have been one of the shortest-lived of all, a mere blink, you may say, in the eye of time.
P. D. James