Saul Bellow Two Quotations

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

The first undressing of two lovers is a most special event.

The two real problems in life are boredom and death.

You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, "The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.