Saul Bellow

"Nothing can be drearier than a quiet, orderly, sensible world."

"A man is not what he thinks he is."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

"The invisible world is all around us, and it is composed of what we cannot see."

"If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me."

"Modern reality is a brutalized reality."

"Kindness and intelligence do not always deliver us from the pitfalls of existence."

"There is something about luxury that corrupts the judgment."

"We are only here for a little while. We should try to see things fairly."

"Work is life."

"Art supplies a record of human consciousness."

"The novelist must have the gift of observation."

"To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door."

"What is the imagination for if not to imagine."

"I'm a pious man, but I don't say so."

"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take."

"The first rule of freedom is to lose your bearings now and then."

"Every man is his own greatest enemy."

"There is something about abundance that makes us want to multiply our lives."

"We are the sum total of our actions."

"The universe is a great big whole, and we are a small part of it."

"Money gives you the leisure to think about happiness."

"Giftedness is not enough; you have to care for these gifts."

"We are not in search of truth; we are in search of comfort."

"A man is in the darkest night of his life when he loses his way."

"A good man is a man who has many good friends."

"The human soul is a very strange thing."

"We are required to change our conception of the world."

"The dream is a little hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul."

"A man cannot have it all."