No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
Iris MurdochI hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to turn it into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls.
Iris Murdochbeing homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.
Iris Murdoch