Detachment is the ultimate pleasure..

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age..

Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will..

Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed..

I am a writer, not a transcriber..

It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do..

One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the ple….

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we clothe her a….

I am not an African. I am an American..

Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us..

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it..

Making the effort is quite a pleasure in itself..

Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is li….

I lived and languished..

I am occasionally loveable but for the most part I’m like loving a raincloud..

Because love, love never finishes..

It is really a tightrope sort of thing, living..

I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to go to work on this ….

Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure..

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction..