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“The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make up this short novel don't play to Roth's strengths. (...) The Humbling disappoints because it avoids these universal implications, and veers off into a baroque world of the unique and fantastic, never quite deigning to make its world concrete or to give its characters the honour of an independent will.”
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“Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.”
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“I think people are universal”
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“Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.”
Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.203, Harvard University Press
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“Due to my work, I tend to stay in hotels a lot of the time, and I generally prefer smaller hotels, as you tend to get better service than in the larger hotels.”
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“There is no Apocalypse.”
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“It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.”
Source : Steve Lopez (2008). “The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music”, Putnam Adult
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“Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him.”
Source : Samson Raphael Hirsch, Daniel Haberman (2008). “חמשה חומשי תורה: מתורגם ומבואר מאת שמשון בן רפאל הירש ; תורגם לאנגלית ע"י דניאל הברמן”, p.125, Feldheim Publishers
