All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.
Philip RothActually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.
Philip RothFor a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.
Philip RothWorld War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the Serbs at Sarajevo shot the heir to the Austrian throne, but by some semiliterate, whacked-out "loner" who lobs a rocket into a nuclear arsenal in order to impress Brooke Shields.
Philip Roth