Saul Bellow Quotes on Identity
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has forced him to become.
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California's like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me.
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I am an American, Chicago born - Chicago, that somber city - and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.
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There is no need to make an inventory of the times. It is demoralizing to describe ourselves to ourselves yet again. It is especially hard on us since we believe (as we have been educated to believe) that history has formed us and that we are all mini-summaries of the present age.
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All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.