Quotes by : Philip Roth

Every man's endeavor was imbued with responsibility

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

Old age isn't a battle old age is a massacre.

There were two types of strong men: those like Uncle Monty and Abe Steinheim, remorseless about their....

How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you were....

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three....

Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, as....

Well, good Christ, how was I supposed to know all that, Hannah? Who looks into the fine points when he's....

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!

You fight your superficiality, you shallowness, as as to come at people without unreal expectations,....