“A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A...” — Marguerite Yourcenar Quote

“A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.”

“I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.”

“Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.”

“Fighters now, they think you have to trash talk to be marketable. Yet so much of what they're saying, it bores me.”

“Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.”

“Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.”