The issue is whether we are ever willing to drop the veil and openly acknowledge, if only to ourselves, that we have freely chosen to face the world through a mask.

Indeed, it is only by remembering what we have forgotten that we can enter into competition with sufficient intensity to be able to forget we have forgotten the character of all play: Whoever must play cannot play.

We do not watch artists to see what they do, but watch what persons do and discover the artistry in it.

It is a principal function of society to validate titles and to assure their perpetual recognition.

Finite games can be played within an infinite game, but an infinite game cannot be played within a finite game.

Travelers do not go somewhere, but constantly discover they are somewhere else.

Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries.

The rules of a finite game are the contractual terms by which the players can agree who has won.

Since finite games are played to be won, players make every move in a game in order to win it. Whatever is not done in the interest of winning is not part of the game.