"The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero"

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

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast"

"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground"

"Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city"

"With foxes we must play the fox"

"Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them"

"Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword"

"Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising"

"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball"

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom"