“In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.”

“It seems no body's business to try to better things”

“Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.”

“I count it as an absolute certainty that in paradise, everyone naps. A nap is a perfect pleasure and it's useful, too. It splits the day into two halves, making each half more manageable and enjoyable. How much easier it is to work in the morning if we know we have a nap to look forward to after lunch; and how much more pleasant the late afternoon and evening become after a little sleep. If you know there is a nap to come later in the day, then you can banish forever that terrible sense of doom one feels at 9 A.M. with eight hours of straight toil ahead. Not only that, but a nap can offer a glimpse into a twilight nether world where gods play and dreams happen.”

“There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m.”

“We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves”

“It's senseless to think of complaining, since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are .”