Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.
Saul BellowThe best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.
Saul BellowIt wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.
Saul BellowBecause I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings, incapable of finding a suitable language and despairing at the impossibility of composing messages in a playable key--as if I no longer understood the codes used by the estimable people who wanted to hear from me and would have so much to reply if only the impediments were taken away.
Saul Bellow