Theories of a wholly good or a wholly malevolent world strike him as foolish. Of those who believe in a wholly good world he says that they do not understand depravity. As for pessimists, the question he asks of them is, “Is that all they see, such people?” For him the world is both, and therefore neither. Merely to make a judgment of that kind is , to representatives of either position, a satisfaction. Whereas, to  him, judgment is second to wonder, to speculation on men, drugged and clear, jealous, ambitious, good, tempted, curious, each in his own time and with his customs and motives, and bearing the imprint of strangeness in the world. In a sense, everything is good because it exists. Or, good or not good, it exists, it is ineffable, and, for that reason, marvelous.

From “The Dangling Man” by Saul Bellow.

Through one of his characters, Saul Bellow puts into words the thoughts about the world that often baffle us.   He describes his reasoning and arrives to the true gist of everything that surrounds us.