This quote comes from "The Peter Pyramid," by Lawrence J. Peter, published in 1986 (I ran across it on Robert MIddleton's actionplan.com site):
"We are a strange people. We spend our lives doing things we detest, to make money for things we don't need, to impress people we don't like.
We never want to be doing what we're doing. When we eat, we read; when we watch TV, we eat; when we drive, we listen to music; when we listen to music, we work around the house.
When we want to be with friends, we go to a noisy restaurant; when we want to party, we spend the evening trying to converse."
