“His friend, his former friend, Valentine, and his wife, his ex-wife Madeleine, had spread the rumor that his sanity had collapsed.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Since they… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“The good are attracted by men’s perceptions and think not for themselves. You must cleanse the gates of vision by self-knowledge, by… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“We were friends, somehow. But in the end, somehow, he intended to be a mortal enemy. All the while that he was… — 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
