“A writer wastes nothing.”

“We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.”

“You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.”

“Nothing, absolutely nothing that can be tackled by the human digestive system is wasted in Naples.”

“4934. There is nothing more precious than Time, and nothing more prodigally wasted.”

“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.”

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

“Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; waste nothing.”

“Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.”

“There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.”