Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.

Beauty feeds us. Anarchy is beauty. We are against the grey people. We want to decorate, like those fantastic Indian lorries which are covered with flowers. Beauty must conquer the lust for order; order is ugliness.

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

We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.

In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.

Faffing of course does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.