Christopher Moore Quotes

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

Being away with a national side at a tournament can be hard - you train, go back to your hotel, and often, you sit in your room, watching TV or speaking to people at home. If there's no communal area, it can feel like being in prison, staring at the same four walls all the time.

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

I just lay in my room for days ... weeks.

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

I'd probably sit around the house and get lonesome if I didn't have something to do.

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.

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 spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work seven days a week, and I live in this sort of vague subconscious fog a lot.

I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

I'm really boring when I'm on the road. I go from work to the hotel and then sit and work all night.

A year is a long time to live without the human contact of loved ones, fresh air, and gravity, to name a few.

I wouldn't want to be in one room, 20 hours a day, 52 weeks a year, with four white walls and a stove. I think it stunts your growth as a human being.

Me writing 'Black Rainbow' was me alone in a windowless room going insane.

If I sit in the same square room and work on something too long, I feel like you just go mad.

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!

Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

This morning I shot six holes in my freezer. I think I've got cabin fever.