Canadian-American writer (1915-2005)
Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American to think that he participates in the life of the entire country. It does not actually place him in a community, but his heart is warmed with the suggestion (on the whole false) that there is a community somewhere in the vicinity and that his atomized consciousness will be drawn back toward the whole.
SAUL BELLOW
"The Distracted Public,", It All Adds Up
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
SAUL BELLOW
Seize the Day
We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.
SAUL BELLOW
"A Second Half Life,", It All Adds Up
I am quite prepared to admit that being habitual liars and self-deluders, we have good cause to fear the truth, but I'm not at all ready to stop hoping. There may be some truths that are, after all, our friends in the universe.
SAUL BELLOW
The Paris Review, winter 1966
A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
SAUL BELLOW
attributed, The Hidden Writer
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
SAUL BELLOW
attributed, Something About the Author