Samuel Johnson's ideal pasttime, had he no obligations or ambition

"If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman but she should be one who could understand me, and would add something to the conversation."

"Life of Johnson" Boswell -- 19 Sept. 1777.

Samuel Beckett took this as a sign of impotence, but signed on to the idea himself. Letter of 26 Apr. 1937.