No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

Quote by Saul Bellow

Topics: Chicago Quotes

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

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

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

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.

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...

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one...

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one...

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

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

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 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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

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...

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...

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...

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...