Saul Bellow is brilliant writer. I am really enjoying all his reads from my 100 classics list. Here is the gripping exit paragraph from Seize the Day:

The flowers and lights fused ecstatically in Wilhem’s blind, wet eyes; the heavy sea-like music came up to his ears. It poured into him where he had hidden himself in the center of a crowd by the great and happy oblivion of tears. He heard it and sank deeper than sorrow, through torn sobs and cries toward the consummation of his heart’s ultimate need.