“A hundred years die in a moment, just as a moment dies in a moment.”
Mueren cien años en un instante, lo mismo que un instante en un instante.
Voces (1943)
“A hundred years die in a moment, just as a moment dies in a moment.”
Mueren cien años en un instante, lo mismo que un instante en un instante.
Voces (1943)
“Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.”
Source: Delta of Venus
“Ecstasy is the moment of exaltation from wholeness!”
September 10, 1936
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
“Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all.”
Source: Prisoner of Love
On criticism of his writing, as quoted in "The Unbounded Spirit of Philip Roth" http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/11/specials/roth-unbounded.html?_r=1&oref=slogin, interview with Mervyn Rothstein, The New York Times (1 August 1985), Late City Final Edition, section C, page 13, column 1