贝娄语录

"[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."[27]

"I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction."[28]

"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."[29]

"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned."[30]