Saul Bellow1915–2005- Nobel Prize lecture (12 December 1976)
- “Saul Bellow: Treading on the Toes of the Brahmans,” interview with Lawrence Grobel in Endangered Species: Writers Talk about Their Craft, Their Visions, Their Lives [Da Capo, 2001, ISBN ], p. 21
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1970) [Penguin Classics, 2004, ], p. 156Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account (1976), p. 127You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
- Nobel Prize lecture (12 December 1976)
She was what we used to call a suicide blond—dyed by her own hand.
Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
“Him with His Foot in His Mouth,” from Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories (1984) [Penguin Classics, 1998, ], p. 11Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Dangling Man (1944) [Penguin Classics, 1996, ], p. 84- Henderson the Rain King (1959) [Viking/Penguin, 1984, ], ch. XVIII, p. 271
- “A Second Half Life” (1991), p. 326
- To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account (1976), p. 38
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