Saul Bellow Quotes
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When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.
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The two real problems in life are boredom and death.
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I am an American – Chicago born.
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With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.
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The first undressing of two lovers is a most special event.
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
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California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
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The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.
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Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.
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We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.
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And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.
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Death deserves dignity.
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It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.
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The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.
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It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.
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With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.
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It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.
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If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
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You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.
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A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
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Fidelity is for phonographs