Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.
P. D. JamesOf all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.
P. D. JamesI still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.
P. D. JamesI learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.
P. D. James