The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.
Saul BellowMyself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.
Saul BellowAny artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul BellowIn the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.
Saul Bellow