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

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

I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.

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 have been trained to think we have enormous power over the world. Whatever you dream, you can do. Anything can be bent to your will. But actually isn't it much more interesting to imagine that you're quite small?

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.