I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it’s a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

Gershon frames gift-giving as a pleasure rooted in spectacle and emotional payoff: the “little faces light up” of children provide immediate, visible confirmation that generosity has landed. The second half pivots into self-aware humor and conspicuous fantasy—“jewels, small islands”—exaggerating the idea of an ideal gift to underline how receiving can be as thrilling as giving. The quote plays with the tension between sincere warmth (delighting children) and playful materialism (luxury objects), suggesting a candid, performative attitude toward celebration and desire rather than a moral lesson about altruism.