Quotes by : Saul Bellow

He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement....

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

Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction.....

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

No true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die. Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ludicrous....

It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love....

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

History, memory - that is what makes us human, that, and our knowledge of death: 'by man came death'.....

And everything soon must change. Men would set their watches by other suns than this. Or time would vanish.....

God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few.