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.

The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.

For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.

It's not even that finding laundry pleasurable or delightful should be our goal rather than finding television delightful. It's that both laundry and television can be delightful.

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.

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.

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?