Children are blessed with extremely low standards when it comes to what they regard as fun or funny.

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom.

People who hate solitude have very low standards when it comes to the company they keep.

Most people would rather be boring than be bored.

I, unlike the vast majority of people, do not find solitude intolerable. As a matter of fact, I enjoy solitude, so much so that there is no dead or living person whose company I preferred, would have preferred, or prefer over my own.

Among other things, friendship is a mutual fight against solitude and boredom.

Most books are useful only in initiating, or maintaining, the rewarding habit of reading.