I surrendered my beliefs
and found myself at the tree of life
injecting my story into the veins of leaves
only to find that stories like forests
are subject to seasons


Saul Williams

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Look what happened with the redesigned Expedition last year,
SAUL RUBIN
I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
SAUL BELLOW
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if ...
SAUL BELLOW
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more compr...
SAUL BELLOW
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
SAUL BELLOW
We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
SAUL BELLOW
Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity ...
SAUL BELLOW
I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhoo...
SAUL STEINBERG
Give a landlord an inch and he'll build an apartment house
SAUL ANTIN
Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
SAUL BELLOW
I wasn't asking. I don't need permission.
SAUL ANUZIS
Demand is as strong as ever and is likely to remain so. Prices are starting to weaken, but volumes c...
SAUL ESLAKE
By the time Napoleon abandoned his army to its fate in Poland - arriving back in Paris on 5 December...
SAUL DAVID
Having lost sight of our goal, we must redouble our efforts!
SAUL GORN
Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
SAUL STEINBERG
People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we l...
SAUL BELLOW
Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang.
SAUL LANDAU
If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
SAUL BELLOW
It does from a distance kind of resemble a marine animal. You can?t find one detail on that engine t...
GREG SAUL
For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition....
SAUL BELLOW
People who see a drawing in the "New Yorker" will think automatically that it's funny because it is ...
SAUL STEINBERG
The artist is an educator of artists of the future . . . who are able to understand and in the proce...
SAUL STEINBERG
A man is only as good as what he loves
SAUL BELLOW
What is art but a way of seeing?
SAUL BELLOW
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our...
SAUL BELLOW
In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries
SAUL BELLOW
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
SAUL BELLOW
With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - some...
SAUL BELLOW
There is something terribly nervous-making about a modern existence. For one thing, it's all the thi...
SAUL BELLOW
I'm an American, Chicago born.
SAUL BELLOW
Any artist should be grateful for a naïve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaboratel...
SAUL BELLOW
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
SAUL BELLOW
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most...
SAUL BELLOW
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out
SAUL BELLOW
I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own ...
SAUL BELLOW
reality comes from giving an account of yourself. (Augie March)
SAUL BELLOW
Conquered people tend to be witty.
SAUL BELLOW
A man is only as good as what he loves.
SAUL BELLOW
In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, O' the cheating that goes on
SAUL ANTIN
We've been a very competitive mid-major program. We're starting to come together. It's a good group....
SAUL PHILLIPS
It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal...
SAUL BELLOW
People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the ...
SAUL ALINSKY
He was looking for the Knight of Faith, the real prodigy. That real prodigy, having set its relation...
SAUL BELLOW
I cannot remember there being as many young kids as today. What draws them is the hardest conservati...
SAUL ANUZIS
If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company.
SAUL PERLMUTTER
History is a relay of revolutions.
SAUL ALINSKY
And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...
SAUL BELLOW
Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don't want to lie more than is average.
SAUL BELLOW
Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic afflict...
SAUL BELLOW
I might have added, as it entered my mind to do, that some people found satisfaction in being. Being...
SAUL BELLOW
but that would have been neither fish or fowl.
SAUL LEVINE