Philip Roth

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an arm ...

With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduate ...

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so ...

The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves ...

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

You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you mi ...

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is form ...

Well, good Christ, how was I supposed to know all that, Hannah? Who looks into the fine points when ...

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I a ...

Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, ...

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

Let's hope the first comes first.

I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter that means you had a hard time during the B ...

The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the ...

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth ...