David Hume Quotes

My favorite pastime is staring out the window. When I go on tour, I can spend hours and hours just staring out the window, thinking about nothing. I love all that.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

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.

I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.

God, I love daydreaming out plane windows.

Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.

I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time. You know, it's lie-around-the-bed time, it's sitting-like-a-dope-in-your-chair time. And that seems to me essential to any work.

I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely.

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.

I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

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.

I'm happy in retirement.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

The less I work, the happier I am. I discovered that, as most people discover at some point.

If you enjoy reading something, read it.

I'm quiet and introverted, and I like to just be by myself a lot. I like to read and just get away and surf. I have a lot of alone time.

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.

My idea of heaven is not writing.

Whenever I have a few hours to dive into a book, I am happy.

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once.

I'm quite reflective - I listen to music, I read, I walk with Django.