I would as lief look upon a piece of pastrami-stained…

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

— Saul Bellow

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

— Saul Bellow

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

“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

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

— Saul Bellow

Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.

— Saul Bellow

“A strange heart. I myself can't account for it.”

— Saul Bellow

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

“Therefore we didn't talk of genuine things.”

— Saul Bellow

Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.

— Saul Bellow

“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

There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

— Saul Bellow

“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

There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.

— Saul Bellow

“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