Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris MurdochPerhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
Iris MurdochSo we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
Iris Murdoch