Renata Adler Quotes

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

boredom

Fear, too, of course, is forward.  No one is afraid of yesterday.

fear

There are editors, it is apparently an occupational hazard, who cannot leave a piece, or a line of a piece, intact—eating through a text, leaf and branch, like tent caterpillars, leaving everywhere their mark.

editors