The novelist Saul Bellow wrote after dinner with Marilyn Monroe:
“I have yet to see anything in Marilyn that isn’t genuine. Surrounded by thousands she conducts herself like a philosopher.”
Later, he reflected:
“She was connected with a very powerful current but she couldn’t disconnect herself from it. She had a kind of curious incandescence under the skin…”
From Saul Bellow: Letters, out now in hardback