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

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.

A man is only as good as what he loves

A man is only as good as what he loves

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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...

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...

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...

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'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.

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...

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

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

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...

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...