I will always want her," Philip said in a quiet, furious…

“Philip stood with the tip of a sword pressed into Mr. Beaufort’s throat. I saw another sword on the floor. Neither gentleman looked toward…

— Julianne Donaldson

“I did not want Philip—that handsome, incorrigible, charming tease who stole hearts he had no intention of keeping.”

— Julianne Donaldson

“You flew your way through all those stone silent statues, and if I could I'd thunk them all at your goddamn doorstep, as noisy…

— Daniel Handler

“Did you think I wouldn’t know you? That I don’t carry the imprint of you burned into my skin?” he demanded in a low,…

— Connie Brockway

“When I look into your eyes, I lose all sense of time and place. Reason robbed, clear thought erased, I am lost in the…

— Julianne Donaldson

“Philip. I have never been outside of England. I've never even been to London. Do you know what I would give for your experiences?…

— Julianne Donaldson

“Mr. Beaufort: “Then why do you want to know?” Philip: “Because I would never make her say the words.”

— Julianne Donaldson

To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved…

— John Sladek

I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you.

— Steven Strogatz

This is the strange thing about existing in time. As [Philip] Larkin puts it, "truly, though our element is time, we are not used…

— Quentin S. Crisp

Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they…

— Barbara Tuchman

There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for…

— Plutarch

“The King’s blond hair, bound by a silver coronet, fell down to his shoulders to frame a white face, narrow eyes, a beak of…

— Paul Doherty

I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in…

— Karan Mahajan

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

— Philip Roth