If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
—E. B. White
I suppose that even the most pleasurable of imaginable occupations, that of batting baseballs through the windows of the RCA Building, would pall a little as the days ran on.
—James Thurber
To get an idea of our fellow countrymen's miseries we have only to look at their pleasures.
—George Eliot
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
—Jerome K. Jerome
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
—Richard Bach
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
—Bertrand Russell
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
—Thomas Fuller
Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
—George Halas
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
—Woody Allen
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.
—Mignon McLaughlin
Perhaps the most lasting pleasure in life is the pleasure of not going to church.
—William Inge
Writer's block is what you get if you're too full of yourself and trying to be García Márquez. You sit and stare at the wall and nothing happens for you. It's like imagining you're a tree and trying to sprout leaves. Once you come to your senses and accept who you are, then there's no problem. I'm not García Márquez. I'm a late-middle-aged midlist fair-to-middling writer with a comfortable midriff, and it gives me quite a bit of pleasure.
—Garrison Keillor
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
—John Dryden
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
—James Joyce
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supreme human experience.
—William James