Philip Roth Quotes

For me, I just want to take things as they come.

Life doesn't have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen.

As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living.

The truth is I try to take people as I find them.

I almost feel like I'm unoffendable now. I can roll with whatever.

Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

You just take things as they come.

I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.

I just go out there and play my game and let the chips fall where they may.

I've stopped making plans a long time back because they never work in my case. Now, I just take each day as it comes.

Dive headfirst into things without being too attached to the results

Don't place expectations on someone. Enjoy the time you have together, and let it go where it goes.

I don't think it's something you can be prepared for. I'm just going with the flow.

I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me.

I'm going to take each day and each thing and each gig as it comes at me.

If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.

Just true to form with life sometimes - what you're trying to do doesn't necessarily work out, but what ends up happening can be a lot better. I just relax and say whatever is going to happen - happens.