It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable.

This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.

The universe is not particularly concerned with you.

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 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?

I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.

If you stop someone who's talking about something being fun, and say "Well what do you mean?" it's almost impossible to answer.