"The fact is a wire through which one sends a current."

—Saul Bellow

"The necessary premise is that a man is somehow more than the his 'characteristics,' all the emotions, strivings, tastes and constructions it pleases to call 'My Life.' We have ground to hope that a Life is something more than a such a cloud of particles, mere facticity. Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light."

—Saul Bellow, Herzog