Saul Bellow

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

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.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

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

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

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

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.

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

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.