Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps

Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.

Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.

I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.

Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is.

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.

You could tell a lot about someone by the way they carried a secret-by how safe they kept it, how soon they told, the way they acted when they were trying to keep it from spilling out.

The sunken grave would fade away, probably in my lifetime. If I could avoid killer zombies for a few years. And vampires. And gun-toting humans. Oh, hell, the hot-spot would probably outlast me.

Looking good is the best revenge.

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

Intuitive Eaters march to their inner hunger signals, and eat whatever they choose without experiencing guilt or an ethical dilemma.

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

From a relatively early age I got interested in business