Play is free movement within a more rigid structure.

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.

A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.

Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you are waiting.

In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.

I think technology is spreading, and I think ones experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.

'We need to do more' is not very sophisticated thinking and not good sales management.

I believe the world is beautiful, and poetry, like bread, is for everyone.

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.