... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I might have added, as it entered my mind to do, that some people found satisfaction in being. Being. Others in becoming.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or craving, before it is… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Some powerful magnificence not human in other words, seemed under me. And it was the same mild pink colour, like the water… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow Copy Share
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. — Saul Bellow Copy Share
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“But now the emphasis has shifted to making it. People have surrendered their personal moral objectives to government or schools or psychologists. It’s a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“I don't know how it all at once came to me to talk a lot, tell jokes, kick up, and suddenly have views. When… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“For knowledge of death makes us wish to extend our lives at the expense of others. And this is the root of the struggle… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
