“I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly....” — Rachel Kushner Quote

“I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.”

“I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.”

“I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.”

“The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.”

“The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.”

“Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.”