John Hodgman Quotes

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

I will make myself sick on films, just because you want everything to be right. I can't sleep if something hasn't been done or is out of place.

It really is like a disease. I just couldn't get away from the theater.

I just have to stop biting my nails. I've been on and off that bandwagon so many times. I feel like it's going to be a lifelong struggle.

I don't have that addictive, "What's going on?" feeling anymore, thank god.

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.

Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.

Beware the hobby that eats.

I get really weird when I'm not working. I have to keep working.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

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

I still bite my nails.

It's an addictive thing. It's not so much I like to go win, but it's a rush.

I might have to take the 12 steps to Workaholics Anonymous.

I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.

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

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

I'm really addicted to water. I carry a bottle of water everywhere I go. I know people think I'm a nut.

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

If I see three oranges, I have to juggle. And if I see two towers, I have to walk.

I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done.

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.