Saul Bellow Age Quotations

If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

...there is no old age of the soul.

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

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 so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.