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

Quote by Saul Bellow

Topics: Saul Bellow Quotes

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them...

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them...

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...

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 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...

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

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

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...

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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...

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

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

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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...

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame;...

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame;...

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his...

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his...

The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow.

The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow.

Almost everyone has or will experience getting dumped in their lifetime. Unless, of course, you're...

Almost everyone has or will experience getting dumped in their lifetime. Unless, of course, you're...