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.

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.

Clutter is found in so many shapes and sizes. We can find it on our kitchen tables, under our beds, in our cars, and in our heads.

Clutter is a weight that has built on top of you so gradually, you don't even realize anymore that it is holding you down.

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.

Conflict is not possible without communication.

Conflict is avoided most on account of mutual respect.

Conflict is inevitable but not necessarily bad.

Conflict is the force that drives a theatrical writer.