The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
Iris Murdoch... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
Iris Murdochany writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.
Iris Murdoch