Renata Adler — Italian Journalist born on October 19, 1938,

Renata Adler is an American author, journalist and film critic... (wikipedia)

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.
In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.