People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
SAUL BELLOWPeople can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
SAUL BELLOWCalifornia is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.
SAUL BELLOWAny artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
SAUL BELLOWThere are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
SAUL BELLOWAll a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.
SAUL BELLOWWhat is art but a way of seeing?
SAUL BELLOWA man is only as good as what he loves.
SAUL BELLOWEverybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
SAUL BELLOWShe was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand.
SAUL BELLOWHappiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
SAUL BELLOWThe Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what’s in it – they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
SAUL BELLOWA novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
SAUL BELLOWWhen we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
SAUL BELLOWThere is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
SAUL BELLOWI’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
SAUL BELLOWI think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
SAUL BELLOW