The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.

Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.

Happiness is pleasure without regret.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.