I am more stupid about some things than others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well-rounded person.
Saul BellowPeople don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
Saul BellowThe writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.
Saul BellowA man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.
Saul BellowBrother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for if the father did not strike the son, they would not be alike. It is done to perpetuate similarity. Oh, Henderson, man cannot keep still under the blows.... A hit B? B hit C?--we have not enough alphabet to cover the condition. A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him. He shall keep the blow. No man shall get it from him, and that is a sublime ambition.
Saul Bellow