Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
Source: Nathan Zuckerman, in The Counterlife, ch. 5 (1986).
-- Philip Roth, (Mar 19 1933-2018), US novelist, short-story writer; His works include an acute ear for dialogue, Jewish middle-class life, and painful entanglements, e.g., Goodbye Columbus, and Portnoy's Complaint.