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I don't have a mortgage, I don't have a wife and I don't have kids, so I'm quite happy bumbling along.

I don't want a job, and I think I've been trying my hardest to make sure I don't have a job.

Fortunately, I've never had a job.

I never wanted to take a job because I needed money, and I never have.

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.

I haven't got a real job.

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.