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.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.