“The stimulation I get from my phone does not feel like the opposite of...” — Robin Sloan Quote

“The stimulation I get from my phone does not feel like the opposite of boredom to me. It actually feels like a different flavor of boredom... a twitchier flavor. And sometimes, it's almost more irritation than stimulation. It's an itch.”

“You can really find yourself at sea when you're becoming an adult and suddenly have to feed yourself for the first time.”

“Without science fiction, without the influence these books have had on me over the years, I'm not sure I would care much about reading or writing today.”

“The environment in which I studied was so safe, I thought I would die from the boredom of it.”

“As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.”

“Sooner barbarity than boredom.”