And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love,… — 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
Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence,… — 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
