"A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."

Gian Vincenzo Gravina

"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."

John Updike

"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."

Walter Benjamin

"There is, of course, a certain amount of drudgery in newspaper work, just as there is in teaching classes, tunnelling into a bank, or being President of the United States. I suppose that even the most pleasurable of imaginable occupations, that of batting baseballs through the windows of the RCA Building, would pall a little as the days ran on."

James Thurber