Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
Lionel TrillingLiterature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
Lionel TrillingI find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.
Lionel Trilling