67 Quotes by Roger Rosenblatt

The trick in foraging for a tooth lost in coffee grounds is not to be misled by the clumps. The only way to be sure is to rub each clump between your thumb and index finger, which makes a mess of your hands.

The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.

I think there must be something wrong with me as a writer. Because all my friends who are writers find reasons to hate everything about their day. But I just love writing. I love starting the day with language and seeing if I can make something of it.

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

My area of the world is the East End. I simply got a better offer from Stony Brook.

I think the administration hasn't got a clear comprehensive picture about how all these parts are tied together. You have to have a workforce to provide the care. Just having an edifice or the organization isn't enough.

The question was, whether or not it would be possible to expand these community health centers if there wasn't anybody there to staff them.

Anyone who lives in the future languishes in the present

I realized these people had been writing what they wanted to write their whole lives.