Philip Roth Quotes

Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.

When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

Imperfection is relatable.

Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.

We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that.

I think it's important to realize that we're all just human. I mean, nobody is supernatural.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

Sex is energy.

Sex is emotion in motion.

Lust is an appetite that needs to be regulated.

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

At the end of the day, I know I'm not Superman.

The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body.