If the study of human interactions could become a science, I suspect that an inviolate axiom might be discovered to this effect: Every social disposi… - Jack Vance

He’s like an imbecile with a pepper shaker; a little makes his food taste good, therefore a lot will make it wonderful.

“Only children are intolerant of conventions. They are indispensable to an organized civilization, like discipline to an army, or foundations to a building, or landmarks to a traveler. Without conventions civilization is a handful of water. An army without discipline is a mob. A building without foundations is rubble. A traveler without landmarks is lost.”
Lorcas stated that he opposed not all convention, but only those which he found irksome and pointless.

The symbologist made a cryptic sign. “That remains to be seen, as the cat said who voided into the sugar bowl.”