Quotations

«If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.»

«It is now possible to abolish work and replace it, insofar as it serves useful purposes, with a multitude of new kinds of free activities. To abolish work requires going at it from two directions, quantitative and qualitative. On the one hand, on the quantitative side, we have to cut down massively on the amount of work being done. At present most work is useless or worse and we should simply get rid of it. On the other hand -- and I think this the crux of the matter and the revolutionary new departure -- we have to take what useful work remains and transform it into a pleasing variety of game-like and craft-like pastimes, indistinguishable from other pleasurable pastimes, except that they happen to yield useful end-products.»

«I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.»

«I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia.»

«If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in adult life»

«In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.»

«I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.»

«If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.»

«If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency.»

«If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time»