Quotes by Roth, Philip

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography >>

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishne >>

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, >>

Quotations about Mothers

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. >>

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love >>

God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers >>

Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles -- and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech -- look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.

Roth, Philip