• One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.

    Saul Bellow: One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.
    Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.301, Penguin