About Alice Quotes

“Why in the world are you a Republican?”
― Calvin Trillin, About Alice

“understand what Ernest Becker meant when he said something like ‘To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything,”
― Calvin Trillin, About Alice

“your children are either the center of your life or they’re not, and the rest is commentary”
― Calvin Trillin, About Alice

“School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.”
― Calvin Trillin, About Alice

“For Alice, of course, the measure of how you held up in the face of a life-threatening illness was not how much you changed but how much you stayed the same, in control of your own identity.”
― Calvin Trillin, About Alice

“Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.”
― Calvin Trillin, About Alice

“among married couples the person who actually makes out the mortgage check is likely to be more cautious about spending money than the person who doesn't. There is something sobering about sending away that much money every month in the knowledge that, rain or shine, you'll have to come up with the same amount of money the next month and the month after that.”
― Calvin Trillin, About Alice

“Our oldest grandchild has precisely Alice's coloring, which may be one reason I sometimes have trouble taking my eyes off her.”
― Calvin Trillin, About Alice