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.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.