574 Quotes by Saul Bellow

The first undressing of two lovers is a most special event.

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

I must play the instrument I've got.

For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!

But there are things you can't consult anybody about.

Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.

Each man has his own batch of poems.

Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?

...I am much better now at ambiguities.