I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.

We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.

So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules.

You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive.

I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.