“I don't know how it all at once came to me to talk a lot, tell jokes, kick up, and suddenly have… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“The sun of that chilishness goes on shining even when the larger bodies of hotter stars have risen to smelt you and… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Well, I need a job. Something that'll leave me the free time I want." "I like the way you arrange your life.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“She sits and listens with crossed legs under the batik house-wrap she wears, with her heavy three-way-piled hair and cigarette at her… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“You have to have the power to employ pain, to repent, to be illuminated, you must have the opportunity and even the… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I knew by this time what Thea thought of these people and in fact of most people, with their faulty humanity. She… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Oh, God,” Wilhelm prayed, “Let me out of my trouble. Let me out of my thoughts, and let me do something better… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“There’s the big advantage of backwardness. By the time the latest ideas reach Chicago, they’re worn thin and easy to see through.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I suppose, he was thinking, that we heard this tale of the Herzogs ten times a year. Sometimes Mama told it, sometimes… — 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
“At that time, when you thought, and I agreed, that I shouldn’t be alone, perhaps I really should have been alone,” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons.… — 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
