Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful they do not excite desire.

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers all alone in their studios with no one watching.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone and that I have no one to tell it to.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

O love if I regret the age when one savors you it is not for the hour of pleasure but for the one that follows it.

Old age has its pleasures which though different are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Old age is a tyrant who forbids under pain of death the pleasures of youth.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries but is dead to all the pleasures.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money it is all profit it completes our education founds and fosters our friendships and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.