California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

Quote by Saul Bellow

Topics: Saul Bellow Quotes

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

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

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a...

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a...

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between...

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between...

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need...

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need...

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen...

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen...

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America...

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America...

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

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

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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

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

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put...

I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put...

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one...

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one...

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was...

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was...

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever......

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever......

A man is only as good as what he loves.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more...

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more...

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.