“People often get a lot of pleasure from anticipating the future. The French even have a term for this phenomenon: se réjouir”: Happiness, money and imagination in New Republic

Film Still: Punch-Drunk Love, Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson (2002)

Paul Bloom talks to Seed about why we get pleasure from food, sex, art and religion

“…my argument is that pleasure is deep. For instance, sexual desire isn’t just triggered by looking at certain symmetries in the face, or waist-to-hip ratios. It’s triggered by  what you really think of the person.”