“To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.”

“There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment”

“Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.”

“Here lies the present paradox: work has totally triumphed over all other ways of existing, at the very moment when workers have become superfluous. Gains in productivity, outsourcing, mechanisation, automated and digital production have so progressed that they have almost reduced to zero the quantity of living labour necessary in the manufacture of any product. We are living the paradox of a society of workers without work, where entertainment, consumption and leisure only underscore the lack from which they are supposed to distract us.”

“Very few people are able to discount the effect of circumstances upon their own characters.”

“Few people repent at leisure after taking the high road.”