“He knew what retributions your devils are liable to bring for the way you treat your wife and women or behave while… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“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 want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Theirs was not a marriage that could last. Madeleine had never loved him. She was telling him that. 'It's painful to have… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover. — 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
