I don’t know what it means to be “happy”… Pleasure is not happiness. Because I kill pleasure – you know what I mean? I take too much of it, and therefore I make it non-pleasurable – like too much coffee, and you’re miserable. And I do that to pleasure often … there’s no pleasure that I haven’t actually made myself sick of.

The late Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014) on happiness, in conversation with philosopher Simon Critchley at the Rubin Museum in 2012.

Via Explore (a Brain Pickings Tumblr project), thanks Maria.