Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
Philip Roth
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.
Philip Roth
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.