Diana Trilling Quotes

Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.

I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.

We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.

Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.

Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.

Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.

Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.