Saul Bellow Quotes

Saul Bellow — American Novelist born on June 10, 1914, died on April 05, 2005

Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990... (wikipedia)

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.