Saul Bellow Quotes

When you live in Vancouver, you realize most of the population is in eastern North America.

Well, it takes all kinds to make a mess.

My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.

I think the Netherlands will become one big city at a point. It is inevitable when you live in a country with so many people. You cannot afford to leave nature as it is. Some people believe that the dunes should be left in their original state, but I think it's strange to let things become how they were 500 years ago.

I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundred and sixteen soy sauce packets. I have three hundred and eighty-two dishes, bowls, cups, saucers, mugs and glasses. I eat over the sink. I have five sinks, two with a view.

I'm very unorganized.

By the end of Fashion Week my apartment is covered with makeup and clothes and shoes. Everything you can think of.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

I'm actually an incredibly disorganized, messy person.

Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.

I've never seen such a goddamned mess in my life.

I don't wish for anybody to go out of business, but I think there are far too many things in New York that really shouldn't be here.

There's nothing worse than coming home to a room that looks like a catalog.

My worst habit is my untidiness. It bewilders my family, the degree to which I can create absolute chaos around me.

We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.

I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating the city seriously as a major economic and cultural power, as the embodiment of 21st century America.

Clutter is my natural habitat.

The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

I pulled out box after box, setting them haphazardly around the room. My organization lacked something - like, say, organization.

She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.

You know," he said, "I keep wanting to say that it's like Simon Snow threw up in here... but it's more like someone else ate Simon Snow—like somebody went to an all-you-care-to-eat Simon Snow buffet—and then threw up in here.

London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.

The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble ... that I, for one, never found them.

I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.