“Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.”
“As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.”
“Can you make me remember the conventional way?”
“What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.”
“Most of the misery had been generated by her conventional aspect, and not by her innate sensations.”