Philip Roth Quote

Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself

American Pastoral (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997) - ISBN: 9780547415970