I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!

We have an idea that if something we're doing isn't actually earning money, or spending it, then it's completely worthless. But if you start to work less, you can actually start to give more to society, but on a local level.

One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?

Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.

Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience. 'I feel really guilty about getting drunk last night,' we say, when in actual fact we feel no guilt whatsoever or, at least, we could choose to feel no guilt. When people say to me, 'I drank too much last night,' I always reply, 'I drank exactly the right amount.

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.

The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.