"There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever."
"You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea."
"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"
"It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture."