Philip Roth Quotes
Most popular Philip Roth Quotes
Old age isn't a battle. Old age is a massacre.
It's best to give while your hand is still warm.
A man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy.
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets—no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
