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

Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more or less meaningful than the clothes in the laundry basket or the dishes in the sink. It's more a matter of the attention you're willing to bring to them, where you're willing to allow meaning and pleasure and the light to escape.

To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.

If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.

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

Be contemporary. Have impact. Strive for it. Be of the world. Move it. Be bold, don’t hold back. Then the moment you think you’ve been bold, be bolder. We are all alive today, ever so briefly here now, not then, not ago, not in some dreamworld of a hypothetical future. Whatever you do, you must make it contemporary. Make it matter now. You must give us a new path to tread, even if it carries the footfalls of old soles. You must not be immune to the weird urgency of today.

The universe is not particularly concerned with you.