Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.

For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.

Animals can be understimulated, but hardly bored.

One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come.

A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the ‘utopia’ we are living in is boring.

Hope was always hard to find in the darkness.

Do you ever just sit there and cry, and you say Wow I had no idea I had this many feelings suppressed?

Life isn't worth living without love. Have faith in love! Take a chance, and you might be surprised at how well things will turn out. If you do, you'll be filled with joy. I promise.

I'm very romantic.

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.

I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.

Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

Who can go to a rodeo and then criticize the hunter? ... an expertly placed bullet would be the best gift a rodeo horse could receive.

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.