We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
Iris MurdochPeople who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
Iris MurdochFalling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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