Tom Paulin Quotes

When I went through my life, I was like, 'I sit around and play video games all day. Nobody wants to hear about this.'

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits.

There are no more vices left - I don't drink or smoke and at a party, after a while, I am lost. I don't dance to the beat of that drum anymore.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.

And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.

I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.

My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.

If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.

I think a lot of people have too much time on their hands.

I don't worry anymore about where's the big hangout Tuesday night, Friday. Couldn't tell you and no one comes to me for advice anymore in those areas anymore, so real boring I would say.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world.

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

I don't typically have a social life, I don't have a family, and I will stay up all night, every night, for days on end, to solve something that I think is solvable. And it's very frustrating sometimes, because I know that I'm like that, and it's not always a positive result.

I just sit around at home, and I have nothing to do, so I am on the Internet all the time.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

At 16, I was in Toronto and very shy and not hanging around with anyone who was intellectual in the slightest, so I didn't really have the means to discuss what I was seeing and feeling.

Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.