In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.
– Renata Adler
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.
– Renata Adler
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.