When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.

I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For example, there's some play in the steering column before it engages as you're turning the wheel.

I think the most important thing to realize about play is that it's this thing that's in stuff, it's not in you.

Once you get yourself on that path where you're willing to find something delightful in laundry and in dishwashers, it means that you train yourself to be able to find it almost anywhere in almost anything.

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.

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

Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or at art or at swimming, or making your parents or your in-laws not be annoying in the way that they're annoying, these are sometimes doomed goals.