I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Saul BellowAny artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul BellowEveryone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel noble and insist on there being something better than what people call reality, that better something needn't try to exceed what, in its actuality, since we know it so little, may be very surprising. If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent.
Saul Bellow