The Professor of Desire Quotes

“How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.”
― Philip Roth, The Professor of Desire

“Perhaps,' I wearily suggest, 'reading is the opiate of the educated classes.' 'Is it? Are you thinking of becoming a flower child?' he says, lighting up a new cigar.”
― Philip Roth, The Professor of Desire

“In a burst of calculated sincerity—miscalculated sincerity, it turns out—I tell one of the girls how the sight of her breasts pressing against her arms had led me to wish I were those arms. And is this so different, I ask, pushing on with the charm, from Romeo, beneath Juliet’s balcony, whispering, “See! How she leans her cheek upon her hand:/ O! That I were a glove upon that hand,/ That I might touch that cheek.” Apparently it is quite different.”
― Philip Roth, The Professor of Desire

“... in truth nothing lives in me life my life.”
― Philip Roth, The Professor of Desire