In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees
I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.
Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.
The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning.
When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.