Saul Bellow
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
“I hope that when I die, people say about me, ‘Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'”
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.”
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
“Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.”
“There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.”
“It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.”
“Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.”
“If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don’t like you.”