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

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.

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 is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

Sometimes the darkness finds us, that will always be inevitable. If one chooses to manifest such feelings creatively, then it really isn't darkness at all.

Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness

As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and over and over again.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Better start rushing before the rush begins!

We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

My role is to set everything in motion.

I'm just going to keep doing comedy because I don't know what else to do. I have no other applicable skills.

I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.