True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.
Iris MurdochPhilosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Iris MurdochThe theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.
Iris Murdoch