Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs… - Eric Berne

Intimacy begins when individual (usually instinctual) programing becomes more intense, and both social patterning and ulterior restrictions and motives begin to give way. It is the only completely satisfying answer to stimulus-hunger, recognition-hunger and structure-hunger.

A game is played from a position, but a position or its corresponding attitude is not a game.

A game looks like a set of operations, but after the payoff it becomes apparent that these operations were really maneuvers; not honest requests but moves in the game.