Saul Bellow

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”

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

“There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.”

“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.”

“There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.”

“I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.”