September 01, 2004

"Sometimes people who seek pleasure are dishonest with themselves because they won't admit to themselves where they find pleasure. They think you only find pleasure in places where you are supposed to, like parties, sex and drugs. Sometimes if they're honest with themselves they can get pleasure from a walk in the country or from anything but they think it's too bourgeois. If you're going to be a real pleasure seeker you've got to be ruthlessly honest about where you find pleasure. Sometimes it's ok to say that you are bored at a party. You just don't care that there is a vodka fountain, an enormous penis carved out of ice and girls sliding down it. That is ok to say."

--Steven Fry