Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.
P. D. JamesDaniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.
P. D. JamesNot so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.
P. D. JamesI believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
P. D. James