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

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.

It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read daily and view on the TV has thrust imagined forms into the shadow. We are staggeringly rich in facts, in things, and perhaps, like the nouveau riche of other ages, we want our wealth faithfully reproduced by the artist.