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.

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

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.

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.