Simple Pleasure Quotes

Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me.

We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it.

That's one thing I love about my son - he's just a gamer at heart, he loves everything. He'll still play 'Pole Position,' or just old things at an arcade. He just loves games. He's not a graphics snob at all. I love him.

Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.

I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.

The happiest moment was when I just played with a ball as a boy, carefree, without worrying about anything.

I enjoy the burger joint the same way I enjoy fancy meals.

Once a week, I used to treat myself to three parottas with the pocket money I saved. It tasted so good, and I loved eating it soaked in salna.

Be happy for no reason, like a child.

When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms, thinking of nothing, cramming the black honey of summer into my mouth; all day my body accepts what it is. In the dark creeks that run by there is this thick paw of my life darting among the black bells, the leaves; there is this happy tongue.

People are used to juggling multiple jobs and multiple responsibilities and multiple things on the home front, and sometimes you get a day off to read, and you just want a book that feels complete and that you can get through it on a rainy day on the couch.

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.

When I'm in the mood for room service, my favorite order is a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich.

I love pizza; you can't really go wrong with pizza.

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

The country crowd just has fun.

I don't really think about why I climb, I just simply love it.

Childhood ought to have at least a few entitlements that aren't entangled with utilitarian considerations. One of them should be the right to a degree of unencumbered satisfaction in the sheer delight and goodness of existence in itself.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit.