I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture

Quote by Saul Bellow

Topics: New York Quotes

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...

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......

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...

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to...

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to...

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves...

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves...

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... Just one. Our life....

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... Just one. Our life....