“Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.”

“Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?”

“Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.”

“They say anticipation makes pleasure more intense.”

“Our memories are thronged with the past; our anticipations range over the future; and it is in the past and the future that we really live. It is so even with the higher animals: they too order their lives by memory and anticipation.”

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

“… and the Universe,… will explode later for your pleasure.”

“Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless. (…)”

“Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.”

“Ordinarily the enjoyment of sensual pleasures is the highest and only happiness of the average man. There is no doubt a kind of momentary happiness in the anticipation, gratification and retrospection of such fleeting material pleasures, but they are illusive and temporary. According to the Buddha non-attachment is a greater bliss.”