Saul Quotes

The standards of judgement must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

No school without spectacular eccentrics and crazy hearts is worth attending.

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

It made leaving bearable, knowing I'd had that kind of love in my life. Knowing I'd had the best thing.

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

God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few.

[Reggie] had a way of picking the bad ideas, which is why we should’ve just said no.(from GAMELAND Episode 1: Deep into the Game)

Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.

All should be accepted, not excluded from the world. Men who hate others shed hate upon themselves. All should have trust, not broken faith.

Whenever I write a dramatic poem I can't understand why the characters should ever want to be anything but poets themselves.

The sun was shut up in a cold bottle.

I presented my feminine side with flowers. She cutthe stems and placed them gently down my throat.And these tu lips might soon eclipse your brightesthopes.

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 life of the creative man is led directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Doodling is the brooding of the hand.

Alternatives and particularly desirable alternatives grow only on imaginary trees.

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.

This is the world as it is. This is where you start.

Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection.(V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)

Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.

My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.

I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty - a delight in the nice things in the world. And I don't think one should have to apologise for it.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.