Saul Bellow Quotes & Sayings

“A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.”

“A man is only as good as what he loves.”

“In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.”

“Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.”

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”

“No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.”

“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.”

“When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.”

“What is art but a way of seeing?”

“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.”