There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

Quote by Saul Bellow

Topics: Saul Bellow Quotes

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.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

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...

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...

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

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

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...