Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.

Life never goes according to plan. That's okay, because often our plans are much smaller than life intends. Probably EASIER, but smaller.

Why do I seem to have this effect on women? They're around me and they cry.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

I've got a lot to do, and I hope that by the end of it all, people will say that Dee Snider was an entertainer, and he did his job well.

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.

The information was correct but the interpretations were not.

Capitalism denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market.

Life is too short for us to keep important words, for example, 'I love you', locked in our hearts.

I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.

There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.