“There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.”

“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.”

“Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator. Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.”

“The rule of law is not an exception to rule by fear; it is the fulfillment of rule by fear.”

“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.”

“Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.”

“There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.”

“There's something oddly satisfying about coughing up a particularly big mouthful of phlegm. Could almost let you skip breakfast.”

“Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.”

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”