What are rules?

Famous quotes containing the word rules:

    “Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “You’d leave your own mother here, if the rules called for it.”
    —Michael Wilson (1914–1978)

    “No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.”
    —André Breton (1896–1966)