Rules and Order Quotes in A Million Little Pieces

How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #4

There's a job, there's your name. The longer you're here, the easier the job. Since you just arrived, you have to clean the Group Toilets. (1.5.21)

The rules sometimes feel like they have a sort of hazing quality to them. We're surprised James doesn't have to clean the johns with his toothbrush. Do all these Rules benefit the patients, or are they kind of arbitrary?

Quote #5

It's Visiting Day. I wouldn't miss Visiting Day. (2.1.227)

James's brother seems to understand the rules better than James does, and it's a good thing, too. James probably wouldn't have any visitors if his brother didn't show up. 

Quote #6

In the back of the book […] is a twenty-seven-question survey about the pattern of an individual's drinking. (2.4.228)

As part of the Twelve-Step program, James is supposed to answer this survey. In case you hadn't gathered by now, he doesn't deal with rules too well (unless he sets those rules himself), so he defaces the book with his crayons like a real bad boy would.