Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps

Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.

Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.

I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.

Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is.

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting by the world forgot.

The recipe for a good speech includes some shortening.

Nick Swardson used to have birthday paint parties. They were phenomenal.

Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

The capacity of Iraq's security forces has improved, and Iraq's leaders have made strides toward political accommodation

To dispair is to turn your back on God.

I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball

It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.

I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.