Philip Roth

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.

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

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

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.