Brought up to respect the conventions love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.

The facts of science are real enough and so are the techniques that scientists use and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Placebo is music for outsiders by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts which is cool.

The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.