I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune.
Source: The Story of My Life, pt. 1, ch. 23 (1903).
-- Helen Keller, (Jun 27 1880-1968), US author, lecturer; She learned to speak and write despite being blind and deaf; wrote The Story of My Life, 1903.