The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.

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.

It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable.

You allow yourself to discover the things that are already there when you play.

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

My lawnmower can't change in the way that my son can or that I can.

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?