Canadian-American writer (1915-2005)
In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.
SAUL BELLOW
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foreword, The Closing of the American Mind
Well I gave a lot of time to women and if I had my time again I don't think I would do it that way. I was letting my neurosis monopolise my life.
SAUL BELLOW
The Guardian, Sep. 10, 1997
We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.
SAUL BELLOW
"A Second Half Life,", It All Adds Up
I am quite prepared to admit that being habitual liars and self-deluders, we have good cause to fear the truth, but I'm not at all ready to stop hoping. There may be some truths that are, after all, our friends in the universe.
SAUL BELLOW
The Paris Review, winter 1966
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
SAUL BELLOW
attributed, Something About the Author
A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
SAUL BELLOW
attributed, The Hidden Writer