Every now and then if you try, you can discover something new.

Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone to do what you want. It's the process of working with the materials that you find and discovering what's possible with them.

Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.

Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and say "What if I took the world at face value?" and then ask "What can I do with what is given?" it's an interesting trick to turn around the whole problem of how you feel.

If you stop someone who's talking about something being fun, and say "Well what do you mean?" it's almost impossible to answer.

Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun."

We have so many choices that it's only always our fault if we're malcontent.