Philip Roth Quotes

I am not impressed by the White House! my father cried, hammering on the table to shut her up after she’d said the White House for the fifteenth time. I am only impressed by who lives there. And the p...

Devi fare solo questo, presentare una buona e coerente versione di te stesso, e nessuno verrà mai a farti domande.

Carrying his books from one life into the next was nothing new to Zuckerman. He had left his family for Chicago in 1949 carrying in his suitcase the annotated works of Thomas Wolfe and Roget's Thesaur...

There it was: the tactless severity of vital male youth, not a single doubt about his coherence, blind with self-confidence and the virtue of knowing what matters most. The ruthless sense of necessity...

You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get the...

Zuckerman, sucker though he was for seriousness, was still not going to be drawn into a discussion about agents and editors. If ever there was a reason for an American writer to seek asylum in Red Chi...

What is it that he was? Was the idea he had for himself of lesser validity or of greater validity than someone else's idea of what he was supposed to be? Can such things even be known? But the concept...

Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.

All that we don’t know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing. As