I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
Source: Comfort me with Apples, Ch. 17
-- Peter De Vries, (Feb 27 1910-1993), US novelist, editor; He was well known as a satirist, linguist, and critically acclaimed for his comic novels The Tunnel of Love, 1954, & Comfort Me with Apples, 1956.