"I cannot tell you how many quiet mornings I have spent sitting around hotel rooms and furnished apartments in the United States and Mexico, smoking cigarettes, plunking the guitar, and watching Perry Mason--telling myself, "Well, at least I don't have a day job. And there is nothing wrong with that. I am not guilty of anything. Perry would see that in a minute.""
— Dave Hickey (Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy)

"A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good..."
— Crimethinc (Evasion)

"Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We have larger apples and better cotton and faster and more beautiful machines. This makes us the greatest country in the world. Unemployment is a myth. Dissatisfaction is a fable. In preparatory school America is beautiful. It is the gem of the ocean and it is too bad. It is bad because people believe it all. Because they become indifferent. Because they marry and reproduce and vote and they know nothing."
— John Cheever

"Preparation for unemployment was a full time occupation."
— Crimethinc (Evasion)

"Being unemployed is the true test of who you really are:
from The Joy of Not Working"
— Ernie Zelinski (Career Success Without a Real Job: The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations)