Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries. – Saul Bellow
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. – Saul Bellow
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. – Saul Bellow
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. – Saul Bellow
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin