“I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.”

“I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.”

“I'd rather be judged for doing something interesting than not judged and be so utterly boring.”

“I'm glad to say I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.”

“If I'd started in business thinking I knew everything, I'd have been sunk before I started… Never think of learning as being a burden or studying as being boring. It may require some discipline, but it can be an adventure. It can also prepare you for a new beginning.”

“If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.”

“Why do you think people cheat?," I asked.
"Because they're bored? Because they can? Because they're selfish and think they're entitled to anything they want? Because they don't think they'll get caught?”

“[Concerning river runners:] If we were going into war again I can't think of any I'd rather have on our side. I mean, all of these good men and women. And if they were on the other side I'd join the other side.”

“Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.”

“If somebody had said last week that I'd be in… involved… with a human, I'd have knocked his head off. I mean, after howls of derisive laughter. But.”