Saul Bellow

But what is the philosophy of this generation? Not God is dead, that point was passed long ago. Perhaps it should be stated Death is God.

‘To tell the truth, I never had it so good,’ he wrote. ‘But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.’ That was hardly a joke. When a man’s breast feels like a cage from which all the dark birds have flown – he is free, he is light.

Think! Demographers estimate that at least half of all the human beings ever born are alive now, in this century. What a moment for the human soul!