“These people go on to tell us that mobile phones will cook our childrens ears, that long-haul flights will fill our legs with thrombosis and that meat is murder. They want an end to all deaths and...”

“Boredom forces you to ring people you havent seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long. Boredom means you start to read not only mail-order c...”

“I took ten days off and by 11 oclock on the first morning I had drunk fourteen cups of coffee, read all the newspapers and the Guardian and then and then what? By lunchtime I was so bored that I de...”

“These people go on to tell us that mobile phones will cook our children’s ears, that long-haul flights will fill our legs with thrombosis and that meat is murder. They want an end to all deaths – a...”

“Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long. Boredom means you start to read not only mail-order ...”

“I took ten days off and by 11 o’clock on the first morning I had drunk fourteen cups of coffee, read all the newspapers and the Guardian and then… and then what? By lunchtime I was so bored that I ...”

“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”

“Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with his own self, which demands that he gives account for the sun which he useless...”

“We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the present, we must first of all redeem our past and then be done with it foreve...”

“The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness,...”

“Hungry men are not known for their patience or their kindness.”

“Hunger does not come from body; it comes from mind. Once a person starts to feel hungry all the time, nothing satisfies him whatsoever. This hunger covers up all the aspects of life ... The only th...”

“We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason.”