Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.
To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows
I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders.
Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.
The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.
[Iris] squeezed his hand. "Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope.
This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
In the '80s, I loved the movies of the '70s. Also I remember loving Klute [1971]. I loved Jane Fonda. Actually, I auditioned for the last movie she made before she retired for a while, Stanley and Iris [1990], which Martha Plimpton got.