Quote: Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. [Saul Bellow]
Quote: The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either. [Saul Bellow]
Quote: Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. [Saul Bellow]
Quote: Any artist should be grateful for a nave grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. [Saul Bellow]
Quote: There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. [Saul Bellow]