Philip Roth

It was puzzling to own trees - they were not owned the way a business os owned or even a house is owned. If anything, they were held in trust. In trust. Yes, for all of posterity,... ↗

— Philip Roth

#business

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature. ↗

— Philip Roth

#intelligence #intelligence

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game. ↗

— Philip Roth

#courage

You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more. ↗

— Philip Roth

#life

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive. ↗

— Philip Roth

#just #life #period #short #short period

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

— Philip Roth

#baseball

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees ↗

— Philip Roth

#life

Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material. ↗

— Philip Roth

#humor

Perhaps,' I wearily suggest, 'reading is the opiate of the educated classes.' 'Is it? Are you thinking of becoming a flower child?' he says, lighting up a new cigar. ↗

— Philip Roth

#education

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre. ↗

— Philip Roth

#battle #massacre #old #old age