Top 15 Saul Bellow Quotes

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

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

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

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

It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

A writer is a reader moved to emulation.

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.