“It’s a pleasure that you don’t outgrow the anthology.”

“Alone at last. Oh, the pleasure of the pain. (Zarek)
You really do suffer from insanity, don’t you? (Thanatos)
Hardly. I have to say I enjoy every minute of it. (Zarek)”

“It’s too cold. Away from the worlds, where a little pleasure costs a lot of pain. Don’t make trouble.”

“Draw you pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.”

“I rated the drug Demerol over sex as the ultimate pleasure at one time. Now I don’t have access to either.”

“I still feel that style is important for reading pleasure, and sex is important for pleasure in life. Each appeases a different type of desire. And while I find nothing shameful in taking direct erotic pleasure from reading or writing, I don’t think they entail a necessary relation. The processes you have me describing are contingent psychological processes. Neither marks one end nor the other of any necessary or even philosophical relationship…”

“The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.”

“Girl, you don't know what you're puttin' through. It's a business doing pleasure, a business doing pleasure with you.”

“You must sacrifice pleasure in order to obtain the highest pleasure bestowed from your Creator.”

“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”