Riana

“In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main ones, the real soul and a pretender soul. Now! Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?' Are you with me?”
― Saul Bellow

“You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it. ”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature.
(Referenced in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young)”
― Saul Bellow, Ravelstein

“A writer is a reader moved to emulation.”
― Saul Bellow