Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored is mooning about and doing nothing.

Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be no more than a decorative asset to her husband, the mother of his...

Writing is a defence against boredom, but it’s also a cure for melancholy.

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right,...

Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.

Boredom is peace misunderstood.

Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.

When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you!

Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing – with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.

If you go looking for love you won’t find it because love is never lost; only we are lost.