Quotes, deep and shallow

In his new book, Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden has this quote, attributed to Philip Roth:

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

That's the deep quote. (I like it just about as well if you stop at the comma. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides...)

For a shallow quote (and a grin), see this post at PalmTree Pundit.