I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.
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 AckroydLondon has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
Peter AckroydYou don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.
Peter Ackroyd