Addiction is characteristic of modernity. Intoxication served to buffer the shock of the modern. Beginning in the nineteenth century, a narcotic (via a tricking-of-the-senses as to what reality is by new cinema technologies) was made out of reality itself.

Addiction is having every habit lying there in one's body even after quitting - having them lying dormant like flowers in the desert, ready to burst into full and luxuriant bloom if given the right conditions.

Addiction is an attachment to the phallus as a means to obtain satisfaction by somehow avoiding the law or the passage through the social bond.

Addiction's opposite is not sobriety; it is human connection.

An Argument is not won by being argumentative — A fire is not extinguished by fire.

Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force though shot by a child.

Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has great force though shot by a child.

The Argument is a detestible thing — They are always vulgar, and often convincing.

Bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the dimension of the divine; its impenetrable omnipotence and very purposelessness harbors divine enjoyment.

Bureaucracy is, as the rule of no one, the modem form of despotism.

Bureaucracy is out of control — the primary function of the government is to "spew out paper."

Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.

A Career is a job that has gone too long.

A Career is wonderful, but one can't curt up with it on a cold night.

A Career is any job that starts after 10 a.m.

A Career is a job that has gone on too long.