The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions.
Philip RothThe only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.
Philip RothEveryone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not.
Philip Roth