Quotes from bellow saul iii

There are those who believe that clumsiness and truthfulness go together. But cumbersomeness does not necessarily imply a sincere heart.

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

I've got at least four or five readers. God has not abandoned me. Why the Lord of hosts has let the ranks become so thin, who can say?

You become a writer because you are convinced that you have a grip on reality of a certain distinctive kind. It belongs to you and to others who share such a recognition.

You see kids, little boys, practicing the jeers of their television heroes--they shape themselves on such models. It's a strange conformity to what's thrust at them; they adopt it and adapt it and play with it.

Greatness without models? Inconceivable. One could not be the thing itself -- Reality. One must be satisfied with symbols.

I think both optimism and pessimism are very boring outlooks. I like to know what's going on, and I like to tell myself that I can handle the worst, should my observations prove to be negative or unfavorable.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness that characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm.

An utterly steady, reliable woman, responsible to the point of grimness. Daisy was a statistician for the Gallup Poll.

I didn't want to be ignored. I didn't want my books to be ignored. But I didn't really care to cut such a figure either because ... well, it interferes with the business of writing.

I am quite prepared to admit that being habitual liars and self-deluders, we have good cause to fear the truth, but I'm not at all ready to stop hoping. There may be some truths that are, after all, our friends in the universe.

Well I gave a lot of time to women and if I had my time again I don't think I would do it that way. I was letting my neurosis monopolise my life.