Life Is About Recapturing Lost Freedoms.

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.

Indolence Of Course Is An Absolutely Crucial Part Of The Creative Process: You Do Not Find Poets Sitting In Rows In Cavernous Word Factories, Staring At Screens. They Are Rather To Be Found Lolling On The Sofa Or Strolling Through The Groves, Nursing Their Melancholic Temperaments And Losing Themselves In Extended Reveries.

In A World Where You Are Constantly Asked To Be 'committed,' It Is Liberating To Give Yourself The License To Be A Dilettante. Commit To Nothing. Try Everything.

There Is Nothing So Perfect As Pinball And A Pint At 11 A.m.

The World's Richest Half Billion People - That's About Seven Per Cent Of The Global Population - Are Responsible For Fifty Per Cent Of The World's Emissions.