Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.

We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.

Love is worth whatever it costs.

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?

If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.

The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.