“Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.”
“The cigars are ballast, sweetheart. Sheer ballast. If he didn’t have a cigar to hold on to, his feet would leave the ground. We’d never see our Zooey again.”
“Failing tastes of bile and dog vomit. Shame on any man who gets used to that taste.”
“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
“The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
“If you were up to your neck in cat vomit and someone threw dog poop at you would you duck?”