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

When the day comes, I remember how much I loathe flying. I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.

These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: "What do you do?" is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.

All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.

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.

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

Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect.