509 Quotes by Philip Roth

Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust.

When the whole world doesn’t believe in God, it’ll be a great place.

One price you pay for being taken for a god is the unabated dreaminess of your acolytes.

Which only goes to show what everyone learns sooner or later about loss: the absence of a presence can crush the strongest people.

Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more.

People are unjust to anger – it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

Nothing keeps its promise.

Writing turns you into somebody who’s always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn’t completely wreck your life.

The accident of a wrong turn had brought me there, and all I did by getting out of the car and entering the cemetery to find her grave was to bow to its impelling force. My mother and the other dead had been brought here by the impelling force of what was, after all, a more unlikely accident–having once lived.