"The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die."

"The healthiest response to life is joy."

"I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well."

"I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that."

"When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy."

"Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it."

"Right, I breast feed baby camels in my backyard just for the freaking fun of it. Just tell me where you live, Pinocchio, and save the baloney for lunch."

"Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life."

"New Year's Day is every man's birthday."

"To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives."

"That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem."

"A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them."

"A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market."

"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."

"Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment."

"Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him."

"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."

"The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence"

"It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you."

"The tigers have found me and I do not care."

"Even when she walks one would believe that she dances."

"A multitude of small delights constitute happiness"

"It was no joy waking up after a dream about that man. He left a taste of thunder in my mouth."

"Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations…"