Three Quotes from a Man

"Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love."

"There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for."

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."

Saul Bellow died Tuesday at the age of 89 and somewhere he is writing still.