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I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.