You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Saul Bellow

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

Saul Bellow

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

Saul Bellow

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

Saul Bellow

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

Saul Bellow

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

Saul Bellow

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Saul Bellow

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

Saul Bellow

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

Saul Bellow

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

Saul Bellow

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

Saul Bellow

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Saul Bellow