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.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.