“I shall admit frankly that, among the academic diversions available today, I consider sociology as a sort of 'royal game.”

“The game of sociology goes on in a spacious playground.”

“The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.”

“I understand the task of sociology to be description and determination of the historical-psychological origin of those forms in which interactions take place between human beings. The totality of these interactions, springing from the most diverse impulses, directed toward the most diverse objects, and aiming at the most diverse ends, constitutes "society."”

“I once admitted—to my shame—
That football was a brutal game.
Because She hates it.”

“Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.”

“I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.”

“This essential coalition between royal military power and often dubious supernatural authority anticipated a similar alliance between the scientists and mathematical games theorists with the higher agents of government today, and was subject to similar corruptions, miscalculations, and hallucinations.”

“The past few years were filled with indicators that the sociology of language is beginning to become established not only as a field of study and investigation, but also as an academic area of studies.”

“A work of this sort admits no conclusion.”