"It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart."
- Saul Bellow
"A man is only as good as what he loves."
"Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is."
"A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking."
"The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether."
"With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything..."
"I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And..."
"He was looking for the Knight of Faith, the real prodigy. That real prodigy, having set its relations with the infinite, was entirely at home in the finite. Able to carry the jewel of faith, making th..."
"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."
"There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep."