Saul Bellow

"What is the word for the feeling you get when you're being hyper-rational?"

"Death is everybody's original subject."

"The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow."

"A civilized society cannot survive without a sense of history."

"Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too."

"To tell the truth nowadays is to run great risks."

"You never have to change anything you got drunk and said."

"Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness."

"The degree to which people are willing to blindly follow a leader."

"In a world of disorder and doubt, the imagination is very valuable."

"We should all be kind to one another whenever possible."

"Facts should not get in the way of the truth."

"The facts of modern life make the real issues that face us very hard to see."

"I don't think you can be a good man and be successful in business."

"Anxiety is part of the condition of modern man."

"The struggle of literature is the struggle of one man against oblivion."

"Success is like a liberation, or like a cloud that removes a shadow."

"I am thinking of my death every day."

"The main thing is that inner life is the real life."

"The world breaks everyone. Afterward, many are strong at broken places."

"A man may say he loves money, but his actual behavior shows his true values."

"The present time is full of new problems which require new solutions."

"Life has become one big entertainment, and entertainment has become life."

"I try to be honest, and that's not easy."

"The intellectual is ultimately a moralist."

"What do you do when you realize you're not the hero of the story?"

"The art is in the doing, not in the explaining."

"Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see."

"Memory is a great betrayer."

"Power is measured by what you can afford to let happen."