“Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.”

“Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence.”

“Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.”

“Habit is a great deadener.”

“The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust”

“We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.”

“I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments with the ball in my hand and the dog yelping and pawing at me. (Pause.) Moments. Her moments, my moments (Pause.) The dog's moments.”