Philip Roth
Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth is an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 March 1933
CountryUnited States of America
love fall thinking
The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.
writing sisterhood skulls
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
battle age massacres
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
reading noise fiction
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
thrill horror lost
The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.
lessons worst teach
He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.
love-you telling-the-truth force
You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.
book certain guide haul knew life literature rule satisfied taste three
The long haul kind of wearies me, the thought of doing a book for two or three or years; and you have to rule so much else out of your life. I always knew that literature satisfied a taste for considering life in a certain way, but that it wasn't a guide to living.
alive boy die jewish man parents remain until
The Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old until they die
war order political
World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the Serbs at Sarajevo shot the heir to the Austrian throne, but by some semiliterate, whacked-out "loner" who lobs a rocket into a nuclear arsenal in order to impress Brooke Shields.
past stronger phrases
'Haunted by the past' is a commonplace phrase because it's a commonplace experience. Even if one is not, strictly speaking, 'haunted', the past is perpetually with one in the present, and the longer it grows and the further it recedes the stronger its presence seems to become.
home numbers america
As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number of homeless in America couldn't touch the number of Americans who had homes and families and hated the whole thing.
center-fielders
Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more
hate crime knows
This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you.