Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.

I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.