The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. – Saul Bellow
Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. – Saul Bellow
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know whats in it — they should, because they put it all in beforehand. – Saul Bellow
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war. – Saul Bellow