Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.
P. D. JamesChildhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.
P. D. JamesWithout 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. James