Quotes About Excess

Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.

When I started to get all that money, I started to buy a lot of watches. I bought 6 to 7 watches, the rainbow Rolex... In a year, I had spent $3.3 million just on the watches.

How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it.

I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.

For me, watching people get out of control, and be indulgent and dramatic was very silly.

I think an excess of anything is bad, be it mobile phones, social media, private tuitions or watching television.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!

I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic.

I'd behave savagely if I had access to Bjoerk's closet.

I have an unending shoe closet. In fact, I don't even know how many shoes I have.

I drink too much coffee.

It's coffee - if I have just the right amount, I come across as charismatic. One too many, and it's like I'm having a seizure.