This is my little disquisition about football: the quarterback, the center, and the towel. p. 116 — Renata Adler

Here, on the other hand, with an ingenuity that should take an entrepreneurial schemer’s breath away, there has evolved the following proposition: that a legal job no sooner comes into existence than it generates, immediately and of necessity, a job for a competitor. p. 118

But we do not normally mistake progressions of weakness, the loss of the simple capacity to escape, for the onset of love. p. 17