“My experience as an addict was very useful to me as writer: the whole syndrome of addiction and withdrawal and the extensions of that and other forms of addiction. It gave me a great deal of material. A writer can profit by something that someone else may not be able to profit from at all. Yet they were very disagreeable experiences. Very boring experiences.”
William S. Burroughs
“With a lot of these pills there is a withdrawal syndrome. Anything that's sedating, if you stop taking it, can cause rebound insomnia. The combination of knowing you haven't taken the drug, which is a psychological effect, and the lack of a pharmacologic effect, are both sort of pushing toward a poor night of sleep.”
Paul Glovinsky
“I have this weird syndrome approaching 10am. Can I please say bugger next week?”
Elton John
“I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.”
Mark Burnett
“I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.”
Phil Hartman
“We don't believe there's a syndrome. We don't believe that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We don't believe that the formula is grounded in scientific evidence.”
Richard Kahn
“Try to distract yourself from it. Even if it means closing the shades to your windows. It's the ostrich syndrome. If you can't see it, you don't have to think about it.”
Peter Whitney
