"Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do"

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

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents"

"My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings"

"My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground"

"I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks"

"I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers"

"My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive"

"I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game"

"Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong"

"For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery"