Part of this individualism is you feel this pressure that you alone have to conquer the world, and if you don't work all the hours God gives then you start feeling really guilty. If you can stop feeling guilty, then I think it's easier to start doing what you want to do.

I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.

The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill had a good long siesta every day during the second world war and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure.

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

I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.

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.

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.