“In a dream I cannot see
tangled abstract phallacy
random turmoil builds in me
i'm a addicted to chaos
-Megadeth, Addicted to Chaos”

“It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.”

Orson Scott Card book Shadow of the Hegemon

“I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.”

Hugo Chávez (1954–2013) 48th President of Venezuela

“I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

“Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts, and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not to substances but to the oblivion and the tenderness the substances engender. An addict, if you don't mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone who has cut himself off, voluntarily, from the world's traffic and currency.”

Jeet Thayil book Narcopolis

“I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

“I'm addicted to prescription glasses.”

Jay London (1966) American comedian

“Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative—the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.”

John Carroll (1944) Australian professor and author

“I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire