However, you do need rules. Driving on the left (or the right or, in parts of Europe, on the left and the right as the mood takes you) is a rule which works, since following it means you're more likely to reach your intended rather than your final destination.

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle when they tried to think. In a funny sort of way, they were much better at it.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

WHERE'S MY COW? ARE YOU MY COW?

I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse. "Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want him nailed to the wall!" He caught the lieutenant's eye, and added: "But not too hard!

If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!