I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. – Saul Bellow
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. – Saul Bellow
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that. – Saul Bellow
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. – Saul Bellow
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. – Saul Bellow
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. – Saul Bellow
In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn’t tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California. – Saul Bellow
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. – Saul Bellow
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war. – Saul Bellow
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. – Saul Bellow
