The novel, the novel proper that is, is about people’s treatment of each other, and so it is about human values.
~ Iris Murdoch

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Serious reflexion about one’s own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him.
~ Iris Murdoch

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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
~ Iris Murdoch

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The 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

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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wave-length of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
~ Iris Murdoch

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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
~ Iris Murdoch

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