Instead I often felt unusually light and swift-paced, as if I were on a weightless bicycle and sprinting through the star world. - Saul Bellow

Once you had read the Psychopathology of Everyday Life, you knew that everyday life was psychopathology.

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.

I am an American, Chicago born — Chicago, that somber city — and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.