Benjamin Franklin and the whole idea of a new attitude to money: "Time is money." He invented that idea. Before that, time wasn't money in the same way; in the medieval age it was regarded as sinful for money to be the object of your life.

What I've found in working less is you start to get a bit more involved in the more real politics, which is local politics that affect what's going on in your own community.

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

When people say " I just don't have enough time " they mean " I prioritized something else.

Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.

When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.