People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The 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 Bellow

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
Saul Bellow

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
Saul Bellow

There 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 Bellow

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
Saul Bellow

What is art but a way of seeing?
Saul Bellow

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Saul Bellow

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
Saul Bellow

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.
Saul Bellow

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
Saul Bellow