I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.

The idea of thinking of our relationships with people as also being structured by limitations and constraints can be useful.

The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.

The problem with fun is we really don't know what fun means at all.

If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it.

If you think about the contexts in which we talk about things being fun, often there's a certain kind of misery or effort that's involved with it. The difficulty of travel, getting all your bags packed and your work done and navigating the airports and all that. That sort of struggle.