An obsessive sense of responsibility that compels you to go everywhere to destroy all bad ideas, all at once and all at the same time, is almost as crazy as not fighting them at all. There is a spectrum between irresponsibility – bad – and total responsibility – bad. In between, there is a mixture of responsibility and irresponsibility. This is a perfectly acceptable attitude.

The physical universe is built on a games condition and the optimum game in the physical universe is described by exactly these rules: minimum ease of entrance, followed by maximum involvement.

As an individual goes up the tone scale, he is more and more of the dynamics and he is more in each dynamic. You expand your space into the dynamics. You expand your control, your knowledge, and your responsibility into the dynamics.

A game is composed of freedom, barriers, and purposes. There isn’t any purpose to life at all. You can assign purpose to life, and if you don’t, nobody will. Purpose has to be assigned to life because it is purposeless.

The word control has a nasty connotation. But it is really about something else.