Saul Bellow, Herzog Quotes

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable.

With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything...

. . . Nietzche himself had a Christian view of history, seeing the present moment always as some crisis, some fall from classical greatness, some corruption or evil to be saved from.

You have to have the power to employ pain, to repent, to be illuminated, you must have the opportunity and even the time.

Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction.

I am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.

Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same.

Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy.