Metaphor reveals a writer’s true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much of a life. - Norman Mailer

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity — it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.

Roth was irritated. Just because he was a Jew too, they always assumed he felt the same way about things. It made him feel a little frustrated. No doubt some of his bad luck had come because he was one, but that was unfair; it wasn’t as if he took an interest, it was just an accident of birth.