“As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.”
“Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.”
“One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.”
“Conventional Wisdom" is certainly not wisdom, and only is conventional because foolishness is so common today.”
“I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.”
“Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.”