Quotes by : Philip Roth

All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable....

The Jewish man with parents still alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old....

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they....

Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence....

People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

He was trying hard to continue to exist as himself despite the unlikeliness of everything.

The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them....

A man who's discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-reflection.....