“The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.”

I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.

I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

I keep hearing I’m a crazy party guy. I’m not. I’m boring. At least by party standards.

You can’t get bored of winning. You can win 10 games in a row but you keep the same will to snatch the 11th. You always need more.

There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.

For me, the opposite of happiness isn’t sadness but boredom.

Boredom is the biggest disease in the world, darling.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present.