“Grammar is like the air: someone higher up might try to set rules for its use, but people won't necessarily follow them.”

“Set up an arbitrary set of rules and then follow them slavishly.”

“I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.”

“We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.”

“The word 'glamour' comes from the word 'grammar', and since the Chomskyan revolution the etymology has been fitting. Who could not be dazzled by the creative power of the mental grammar, by its ability to convey an infinite number of thoughts with a finite set of rules?”

“Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.”