Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

I cannot be bored, and I always want to have fun.

I have no desire to work my adrenal glands any harder than necessary. I like lazing around; it's pretty important to my well-being. But I also get bored, so that's when my culture-vulturing kicks in.

Idleness - a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything - is the poet's friend.

Life is all about having a good time.

I love to travel. During normal workdays, sometimes it feels like I have to bludgeon ideas out of my soul - but when I'm traveling, relaxed and unpressured, the ideas just spill out.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

I just want to have fun.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for college or did research during college. I went home and watched TV the whole day for three months; it was really awesome.

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is such an important part of that.

Play exercises both your physical and creative muscles. It helps you move around, solve problems, challenge yourself, and think in new ways. Not to mention that it's just plain fun.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

Games have no other purpose than to please.

It's nice to have a situation where you can make it fun.

I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.

I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.

If I'm not working, I don't know what to do.

At home, I don't like to be just sitting around; I like to go out and do things. It's when I'm the happiest.

Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.