“Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair--or the height of a battle against boredom.”

“Oh,you. The usual. With you gone and Easton Heights in reruns, my life is a black hole of boredom and despair.""So basically you've been doing homework.""Like I said,black hole.”

“My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.”

“Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.”

“However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?”

“Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.”