Philip Roth Men Quotations

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success.

It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.

There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.

When he is sick, every man wants his mother.

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy.

Sex is all the enchantment required. Do men find women so enchanting once the sex is taken out? Does anyone find anyone that enchanting unless they have sexual business with them? Who else are you enchanted by? Nobody.

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!