“The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.”
“This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.”
“What is another person's pleasure is another's poison.”
“What is one person's pleasure is another's poison....”
“Tasting is an act of pleasure, and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.”
“The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.”