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

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You...

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You...

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion...

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion...

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...

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 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...

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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...

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.

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

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

A man is only as good as what he loves

A man is only as good as what he loves

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

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

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...

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.

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.

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

Memories have to be our most painful blessing

Memories have to be our most painful blessing