"The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress."
"Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts."
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Source: Philip Roth, George John Searles (1992). “Conversations with Philip Roth”, Univ Pr of Mississippi
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