Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog. — 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
I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous… — 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
