“A hobby is labor disguising itself as leisure. It is extremely destructive to the boundaries of private life.”
“My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior -- BEFORE the Reformation.”
“In the economies of late capitalism leisure displaces labor, consumption displaces production, and commodities become the instruments of leisure, identity, and social relations.”
“...that the basic transaction of life itself was a sad, endless amalgam of public endurance and private indulgence.”
“The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.”
“I think cynicism often disguises itself as humour.”