Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.

There are also many things my wife can't stand about me, and there are certain capacities that she has that are different than mine. The trick is to find compatibilities.

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

You don't want to be told, "Hey, do whatever you want." That's what we think of when we think of play. It's the thing where you get to do whatever you come up with in your own mind, all bets are off, there's no boundaries.

We have so many choices that it's only always our fault if we're malcontent.

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it.

God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today.