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.
Source: Speedboat, 1976.
-- Renata Adler, (Oct 19 1938-____), US journalist, writer; She was a staff writer-reporter for?The New Yorker, and chief?film critic?for?The New York Times.