Philip Roth Patrimony Quotes

#1. You are a tedious fool.

William Shakespeare

#2. I love being verbal in films.

Sylvester Stallone

#3. And I'm sure Theo can always find her.

John Grisham

#4. How stark everything became, at the end, all the wishes for one's children distilled by the world's swift cruelty into the desperate hope that death would take them fast.

Justin Cronin

#5. The life of the average person is often not based on provocation and grand adventures, but lived as homage to the wonder of the constant state of being.

Rhonda Laurel

#6. I'm a kid who did stock and summer youth theater where we'd put up two shows and you had no rehearsal. I've also understudied, where I've had to go on with no rehearsal.

Donna Murphy

#7. Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.

Mordecai Richler