“Them fancy London types don't know the pleasure of eating chips with fingers”

“And then I saw the menu, stained with tea and beautifully written by a foreign hand, and on top it said…"Chips with everything". Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.”

“I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another eating while reading.”

“While fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.”

“Ever let the Fancy roam,
Pleasure never is at home.”

“Ever let the Fancy roam,
Pleasure never is at home.”

“I had cut a typing class because I hated to type, and I still don't know how to type, but [now] I can afford to have people type for me.”

“I suppose this is peasant food. You know, the workers in the fields needed these heavy dumplings and things to eat, but God don't offer them to me…”

“Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.”

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