Renata Adler

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

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.

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.

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.