Quotes by Roth, Philip

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress. >>

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will re >>

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in >>

Quotations about Discretion

Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whet >>

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty. >>

Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court. >>

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

Roth, Philip