A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
SAUL BELLOWA great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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 BELLOWI’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
SAUL BELLOWEverybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
SAUL BELLOWA man is only as good as what he loves.
SAUL BELLOWI think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
SAUL BELLOWWith 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.
SAUL BELLOWAny artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
SAUL BELLOWNo realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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 BELLOWI’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
SAUL BELLOWGoodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
SAUL BELLOWWhat is art but a way of seeing?
SAUL BELLOWPsychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious.
SAUL BELLOWEverybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
SAUL BELLOW