I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. – 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
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
I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card. – Charles Baudelaire