Quotes by : Philip Roth

Where everything is words, you'd think I'd have some mastery and know my way around, but all this churning....

I can lie about my name, I can lie about my school, but how am I going to lie about this fucking nose?....

other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless.....

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

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

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

Yes, yes, yes, he felt uncontrollable tenderness for his own shit-filled life. And a laughable hunger....

Writting turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get ir right someday is....

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

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside.....