Saul Bellow Quotes
Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.
Whenever I write a dramatic poem I can't understand why the characters should ever want to be anything but poets themselves.
New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it.
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
The truth is we've not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult the zaniness and crazed quality of modern experience.
Our society like decadent Rome has turned into an amusement society with writers chief among the court jesters - not so much above the clatter as part of it.
