Michaelgottlieb

“I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.”
― Phillip Roth

“And as Lindbergh's election couldn't have made clearer to me, the unfolding of the unforeseen was everything. Turned wrong way round, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied as "History," harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.”
― Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

“I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again...”
― Philip Roth, Ghost Writer

“You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.”
― Philip Roth, American Pastoral