67 Quotes by Roger Rosenblatt

Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die “and decrease the surplus population.” Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.

If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it ‘focused.’

Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: ‘Your life counts for something.’ In no other subject that I know of is that message given.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you’ve probably chosen the wrong something.

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self – regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

Just because the person who criticizes you is an idiot doesn’t make him wrong.

Grief. The state of mind brought about when love, having lost to death, learns to breathe beside it. See also love.

Somewhere, I am sure, a calm, quiet place awaits me where I may do something worthwhile again. Another island, perhaps. Or a little cottage near the sea, far removed from developers, removed from Lapham. And, there is always Vermont. For everyone, in every time of despairing optimism, there is always Vermont.

Live in the past, but don’t remember too much.