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

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...

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended...

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended...

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...

What is art but a way of seeing?

What is art but a way of seeing?

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not...

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not...

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not...

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not...

A man is only as good as what he loves

A man is only as good as what he loves

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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...

A man is only as good as what he loves.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

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.

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones...

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones...

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...

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own...

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own...