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
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. – 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
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later. – Jonathan Sacks