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
No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document. – 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. – Renata Adler
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. – Renata Adler
