I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?
I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.
If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to its opposite? But how to tempt them to pain.
People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
If you see in sports at a super high level, people get hurt or have injuries when there isn't that pleasure, the true pleasure of the sport, when they're tired or demoralized or they're not quite focused.
But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
If you are up to your knees in pleasure, then you are up to your waist in grief.
Children are the greatest blessing from God.
Keep the faith. It is the greatest gift.
The greatest blessing is the gift of life.
Feeling a part of that community is my greatest reward.
Life is indeed the greatest teacher of all, and our pride the greatest hurdle.
Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts.
The greatest weapon that one can have is a simple...smile.
The greatest thing that we can do for the world is be America.
A women's greatest asset is her beauty.
The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?'
The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.
