One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have b…

- Roger Rosenblatt

A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge…

- Roger Rosenblatt

My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment. . . . I think the c…

- Roger Rosenblatt

The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantas…

- Roger Rosenblatt

The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a s…

- Roger Rosenblatt

Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.

- Roger Rosenblatt

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

- Roger Rosenblatt

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

- Roger Rosenblatt

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

- Roger Rosenblatt