Love is something totally new every day, but pleasure is not, pleasure has continuity. Love is always new, and therefore it is its own eternity.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.

The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.

“Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.”

“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”

“Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure”

“Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing”