Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons
Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.
There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time.
We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves
By taking out a loan, I am committing myself to years of interest repayments, and therefore to years of wage slavery. And the UK has been borrowing like crazy since 1694, when the Bank of England was invented. This means that we are locked into high taxation to pay for 300 years of wars and other costly and generally disastrous state enterprises.
Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on earning you a living without you doing any more work on it. It's absolutely ideal for an idler.
Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.
The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing.
Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell.
Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.
If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.