It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.
Iris MurdochPhilosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Iris MurdochWe are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
Iris MurdochThe notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
Iris Murdoch