Quotes About Philip Roth

And she was game. They're all game, if you take your time and use your brains—and aren't sixty-four years old.

never would I be able to revive that unfazed sense of security first fostered in a little child by a big, protective republic

Yes, that's what made my mother angry, no doubt about it. The ostentatious virility.

obtaining a first-class education there in the commonplace libel that linked him inextricably to the crucifiers of Christ.

Anything to empty life of its incongruities, of its meaningless, messy contingencies, and to impose on it instead the simplification that coheres—and misapprehends everything.

Sabbath was a realist, ferociously a realist, so that by sixty-four he had all but given up on making contact with the living, let alone discussing his problems with the dead.

La poseuse de bombe présumée est décrite comme intelligente et douée mais d'un caractère têtu.

There is no punishment too extreme for the crazy bastard who came up with the idea of fidelity. To demand of human flesh fidelity.

I am more of a menace than I realize. This is serious. Premature senility. Senilitia, dementia, hell-bent-for-disaster erotomania.

I was suddenly alarmed about leaving this attractive forty-five-year-old woman alone with him, dead though she was.

so conspicuous was his abhorrence of "rebellious insolence" that he might have been enunciating the name of a menace resolved to undermine not just Winesburg, Ohio, but the great republic itself.

The experience of psychoanalysis was probably more useful to me as a writer than as a neurotic, although there may be a false distinction there.

Good. Hurry. Into insanity. Off with your clothes and into the bayous. Into the chocolate-milk-colored water filled with dead old trees.

Lev-en-thal to Le-vov! Lev-en-thal to Le-vov!" was an anapest

The professors are always schlepping in Swift to defend some farsbtunkeneh nobody.