“In Peter Ackroyd's book 'London: The Biography,' he describes the rout...” — Peter Capaldi Quote

“In Peter Ackroyd's book 'London: The Biography,' he describes the route of the medieval wall that enclosed the original city. Take the book and follow it from the Tower of London via the Barbican to Ludgate Hill. You experience the real history of London.”

“I always thought it was funny that my grandparents had bought a ticket to New York and ended up in Glasgow.”

“I didn't want to be Doctor Who in a 'Doctor Who' that I didn't like.”

“Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.”

“I felt in my bones that Alfred Kazin was right to suggest that 'the deepest side of being American is the sense of being like nothing before us in history' - a historical conceit that privileged biography as the narrative of the exceptionalist experience.”

“Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”