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.

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

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.

When one is trying to give pleasure it is always well to do it in the best possible way.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky.