“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
“Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.”
“When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.”
“A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about”
“Today, it's possible to read both erotica and books written for children without fear of social castigation.”
“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 reading while eating.”