Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities. Author: Saul Bellow Copy Quote More from Saul Bellow “Therefore we didn't talk of genuine things.” “To him, perpetual thought of death was a sin. Drive your cart and your plow ove…” “How we all love extreme cases and apocalypses, fires, drownings, stranglings, a…” “A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.”