Play becomes a distraction, something you don't really need to do. It's not for serious people. They work hard, they don't play hard. Yes, you can say play hard, but that really means, keep working hard, right?

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

We're used to thinking of fun as a sort of synonym for light pleasure.

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

There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.

Even when we tell kids to go play, what do the kids do? They come up with a set of constraints and structures. "Oh, we're gonna build a fort out of clothes, and now that we're in the fort we're going to pretend that we're prisoners," or whatever.

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