"Bring him peace, bring him joy, he is young, he is only a boy..."...
His caveat to the admission that his kids do after all bring him joy is 24-carat Scandi-gloom: "Joy is not my goal, never has been, what good is joy to me?" Boyhood Island, the latest volume to come out in English, makes clear that, with a father like Knausgaard's, anyone might struggle to turn their frown upside down.
The Federer piece had brought him joy.
Each meatball that I sneaked onto his plate not only brought him joy; it also brought us closer.
"It brings him joy," said Risa Heller, a former communications director, one of more than a dozen former aides who recounted his sayings, often while imitating his voice.
But the Playland portraits bring him joy, even if some may look down at a carnival artist.
That's the challenge award-winning poet Ross Gay gave himself on his 42nd birthday: to chronicle the things that brought him joy, each day, for one year.
Walking away from what brought him joy couldn't have been easy, but my father never looked too far into the dark side of his condition.
He saw that this type of organization brought him joy, and he ended up joining the staff as chief financial and administrative officer.
Jamillah embarks on a mission to bring him joy, but will luring him to a flashmob rave in the market square work?
During a later Guardian webchat he was asked what brought him joy and replied it was "talking to people I don't know on the internet!
