Alan Greenspan Quotes

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

Once you drink one glass, you want another.

I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.

Ice cream is my vice.

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

At times I thought guys were going to pop me right there in Town Hall …. The level of incivility is more than I'm willing to put up with. I like to ski … drink a beer, and not have someone come up to me and complain.

Books are like chocolate. Can't eat just one.

We all have our vices, you know. One of my vices is ice cream.

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.

The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became - it's become an addiction. I'm addicted to working.

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.

Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment.

. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . . .

The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.

Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.

It's an accompaniment to life. It's not something that I do to rap; I smoke when I open my eyes...I don't know any other feeling.

My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate. I can't have a little bit of drugs.

Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)

It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.

Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money.

Sex is just another real good drug ... and it can make a junkie out of you.

Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.

Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.