Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. – Saul Bellow
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. – Saul Bellow
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. – Saul Bellow
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. – Saul Bellow
The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act. – Charles Hodge