“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”
“Most of life is unbearable. It’s unbearable but we bear it”
“The easiest emotions for an author to evoke from readers are boredom and confusion.”
“In freedom, every non-nomenklatura citizen knew perpetual hunger – the involuntary slurp and gulp of the esophagus. In camp, your hunger kicked as I imagine a fetus would kick. It was the same with boredom. And boredom, by now, has lost all its associations with mere lassitude and vapidity. Boredom is no longer the absence of emotion; it is itself an emotion, and a violent one. A silent tantrum of boredom.”
“The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.”