All Saul Bellow Quotes
- I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely.… Answering
- I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure,… Beautifully
- I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood. Acceptance
- I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side. Fig
- Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything Backing
- If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools. Age
- I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the… Afraid
- Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing… America
- ...there is no old age of the soul. Age
- ...I am much better now at ambiguities. Ambiguities
- ...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old… Advantage
- It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent. Consistency
- ...chaos doesn't run the whole show. Chaos
- ...is the carbon molecule lined with thought? Carbon
- Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees. Alternatives
- A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality. Creates
- But there are things you can't consult anybody about. Anybody
- ... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age. Age
- Death deserves dignity. Death
- The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence. Aim