Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow
Saul Bellowwas a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 June 1915
CityLachine, Canada
CountryUnited States of America
... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.
The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.
There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.
...is the carbon molecule lined with thought?
What Homo sapien imagines, he may slowly convert himself to.
It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
Well, everybody has a history.
The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.
Death deserves dignity.
... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
Love is the most potent cosmetic ...
An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes place, according to the divine plan.
The two real problems in life are boredom and death.