We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“What this means is not a single Tower of Babel plotted in common, but hundreds of thousands of separate beginnings, the length… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — 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 Image
“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 Image
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
