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

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

The universe is not particularly concerned with you.

Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play, the thing you choose to do.

We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force.

When we think about play and games and the situations in which having fun is seen as an outcome, they often have to do with repetition. You're returning to something again, and even despite that similarity, you squeeze something new out of it.

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