I love solitude but I prize it most when company is available. Saul Bellow

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

 ― Saul Bellow  

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction. ― Saul Bellow

A writer is a reader moved to emulation.

― Saul Bellow 

 

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.
― Saul Bellow, Herzog  

 

I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.
― Saul Bellow, Seize the Day

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
― Saul Bellow, Conversations with Saul Bellow