There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument… — 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
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
Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I am more stupid about some things than others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well-rounded person. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for… — 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
