“... the moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.”
“Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.”
“I'm never bored. Only people bore me, so I avoid them”
“Moral writing is boring.”
“Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored is mooning about and doing nothing. ”
“Allow yourself to think that the possibility of failure is a necessary part of parenting well.... Avoiding the possibility of failure means avoiding the possibility of being an extraordinary parent-and avoiding what you want for your child.”