Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Saul Bellow
I think that New York is not the cultural center of America, but the business and administrative center of American culture.
Saul Bellow
California's like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me.
Saul Bellow
Any artist should be grateful for a nave grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul Bellow
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony, and even justice.
Saul Bellow
Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.
Saul Bellow