574 Quotes by Saul Bellow

I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another idea. That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken.

Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.

I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.

You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway will do that. But it's much more interesting to talk about books. After all, that's what life used to be for writers: they talk books, politics, history, America. Nothing has replaced that.

At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.

I am more stupid about some things than others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well-rounded person.

I don’t actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I’m beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul.

Death is the black backing on the mirror that allows us to see anything at all.

I am an American – Chicago born.