Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
Philip RothThe only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody who comes in out of the blue and says the truth. Everything else is table manners.
Philip RothI turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I read the two sentences over and turn them both around. Then I lie down on my sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning.
Philip RothI came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.
Philip Roth