Philip Roth

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die! ↗

— Philip Roth

#boy #die #jewish #man #parents

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress. ↗

— Philip Roth

#hell is #paved #road

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple. ↗

— Philip Roth

#army #clearly #even #glass #home

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons. ↗

— Philip Roth

#driven #help #him #his #needs

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing. ↗

— Philip Roth

#even #know #knowing #more #passes

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline. ↗

— Philip Roth

#downside #fear #gradually #greed #itself

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. ↗

— Philip Roth

#assure #cannot #discretion #easier #i

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't. ↗

— Philip Roth

#decide #dim #fiction #i #i write

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? ↗

— Philip Roth

#human #human being #intelligent #large-scale #likely

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when. ↗

— Philip Roth

#aged #dying #everything #exactly #except