574 Quotes by Saul Bellow

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

Some people, if they didn’t make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep,” said Mintouchian. “Even the Son of Man made it hard so He would have enough in common with our race to be its God.

Would never understand what women want. What do they want? They breath salad and drink human blood.

IT TAKES SOME OF US a long time to find out what the price is of being in nature, and what the facts are about your tenure. How long it takes depends on how swiftly the social sugars dissolve. But when at last they do dissolve there’s a different taste in your mouth, bringing different news which registers with dark astonishment and fills your eyes. And this different news is that from vast existence in some way you rise up and at any moment you may go back. Any moment; the very next, maybe.

I don’t like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you’re doing very much or like the people – either like them or hate them. You can’t be indifferent.

She’s very pretty but she’s honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won’t spread.

The revolutions of the twentieth century, the liberation of the masses by production, created private life but gave nothing to fill it with.

I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.

I am sure you were sincere. Not insincere. True insincerity is hard to find.