“Happy people produce. Bored people consume.”
“Famous people consume us because we are bored.”
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”
“In the Middle East today there are too many people consumed by political dreams and too few interested in practical plans. That is why, to paraphrase Winston Churchill's line about the Balkans, the region produces more history than it consumes.”
“I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”
“Boring people are boring.”