“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”
Bryson was later awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Durham
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (US), Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998)
Source: Reasons to Stay Alive
“I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.”
Nina J. Easton, Los Angeles Times (January 4, 1989) "Bette Davis smoking over `Stepmother' role", Houston Chronicle, p. 10.
“If relaxed means limp, don't worry about it. I'm relaxed. I'm relaxed all over.”
The Spy in the Ointment (1966)
Context: The cops are after me, I'm on my way to join an organization of lunatics and bombers, I'm wired for sound, my necktie turns into a smokescreen, my handkerchief will make you throw up, my Diner's Club card explodes, I'm the leader of a subversive terrorist organization composed entirely of undercover federal agents, newspapers all over the country are saying I killed my girl, and I'm on my way to meet a twenty-five-year-old Nazi built like Bronco Nagurski. If relaxed means limp, don't worry about it. I'm relaxed. I'm relaxed all over.
Binelli, Mark. "Teenager of the Year" http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5940065/teenager_of_the_year. Rolling Stone. August 27 2003. Retrieved October 25 2006.
On Metamorphosis (2003).
Variant: Write. Don't think. Relax.
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing
