Renata Adler

“In the face of an absolutely scandalous performance, blame is the only thing that is important.”

“That is what spinors are. They are the square root of geometry.”

“Every day, in every ‘looks’ department, I seem to fall a little more short of the mark.”

“Writers are always selling somebody out.”

“I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray.”

“No one is more sentimental than a cynic.”

“It is a matter of some pride to me that I have never been a part of the literary establishment.”

“The radical is simply being given a chance to be silly in public.”

“I have always been a writer. I was a writer before I was a journalist.”