Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.
Peter AckroydTo watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.
Peter AckroydI don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.
Peter AckroydAnd the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'
Peter Ackroyd