There’s a kind of emptiness at the center of life … nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. — Saul Bellow
With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you’ve fallen into good hands – — Saul Bellow
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. — Saul Bellow
The truth is, we’ve not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult — Saul Bellow