“Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.”

“Body pleasure is very different from promiscuity, which reflects a basic inability to experience pleasure. If a sexual relationship is not pleasurable, the individual looks for another partner. …Affectionately shared physical pleasure… tends to stabalize a relationship and eliminate the search.”

“As a reader I loathe introductions… Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.”

“I take a perverse pleasure in calling myself a feminist.”

“...The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... Confronted with objects that are too big according to their magnitude or too violent according to their power, the mind experiences its own limitations.”

“The pleasures that give most joy are the ones that most rarely come.”

“Just another taste of pleasure.”

“Economy in pleasure is not to my taste.”

“In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.”

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”