If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

Your fear is the most boring thing about you.

That’s probably the most boring conversation you could hear – an actor talk about politics. I won’t go there.

One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national team tests I took on ergs were dismal failures, which worked wonders to further my dislike of these beastly creatures. Boring. Tedious. Noisy. Ergs have greatly cheapened rowing. Graceless. Greasy. Grim. The erg is to rowing what having sex by yourself is to having sex. Stop it!

Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There’s no joy of discovery in what you’re doing if that’s your strategy.