A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides… — 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
A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and… — 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
