Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.
Philip RothBecause 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 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