Saul Bellow Quotes

Public virtue is a kind of ghost town into which anyone can move and declare himself sheriff.

But Fonstein belonged to an even more advanced category…their aim is to convert weaknesses and secrets into burnable energy. A first-class man subsists on the matter he destroys, just as the stars do.

The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let’s include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo, ‘targeted’ by powerful forces—Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.