The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.

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.

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

Is there any chance you'd overthrow the tyrannical Beast Lord and his psychotic consort?" "Yeah, I want a vacation." -Kate & Curran to Jim

If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.

But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me. "Katniss, there is no District Twelve."

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.