Philip Roth Quotes - Page 2

other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength.

Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.Interview in Esquire Magazine 10/10

How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you were a boy?

I was still too much of a fledgling with people to understand that, in the long run, nobody is a picnic and that I was no picnic myself.

My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets —no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

He was trying hard to continue to exist as himself despite the unlikeliness of everything.