Matt Groening Quotes

My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.

I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.

There's an obsessive quality to it that I thought I would've grown out of by now. It's an ongoing source of shame for me.

Twitter's probably my bad habit.

Any obsession is dangerous.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

I have to be careful with surfing. It's still an addiction to me. It's all I want to do, and that's the big dilemma I have with it.

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.

Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

I have an addictive personality, so when I like something, I really want it all.

I have this part in myself that sometimes gets me into situations that can never end well, just because I want to prove to myself that I'm no good.

I don't make the right choices. I simply don't.

It's a universal experience to be compulsively doing something that's damaging your life.

I'm such an addictive personality that I can say yes or no.

I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it works, there is nothing like it.