“Spring me from this role I play of the smothered son in the Jewish joke! Because it's beginning to pall a little… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die! — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Why can't Jews with their Jewish problems be human beings with their human problems?” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant! — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The legend engraved on the face of the Jewish nickel- on the body of every Jewish child!- not IN GOD WE TRUST,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I remember when Jewish kids were home doing their homework. What happened? What the hell happened to our smart Jewish kids? If,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“His nose was his most distinctive feature: curved like a scimitar at the top but bent flat at the tip, and with… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ, who they go around telling everyone was God, was actually a Jew! and this fact, that absolutely kills me when… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“They worship a Jew, do you know that, Alex? Their whole big-deal religion is based on worshiping someone who was an established… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old until they die. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Mr. Levov was one of those slum-reared Jewish fathers whose rough-hewn, undereducated perspective goaded a whole generation of striving, college-educated Jewish sons:… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“The old intergenerational give-and-take of the country-that-used-to-be, when everyone knew his role and took the rules dead seriously, the acculturating back-and-forth that all of… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see there is no conquering or exorcising the past with words - words born either of imagination or forthrightness.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“What is astonishing is that we, who had no idea how anything was going to turn out, now know exactly what happened.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere! — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Better for real things to be uncontrollable, better for one's life to be undecipherable and intellectually impenetrable than to attempt to make casual sense… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
