History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.
P. D. JamesI am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.
P. D. JamesUnnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.
P. D. JamesI knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.
P. D. James