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.

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.

Be contemporary. Have impact. Strive for it. Be of the world. Move it. Be bold, don’t hold back. Then the moment you think you’ve been bold, be bolder. We are all alive today, ever so briefly here now, not then, not ago, not in some dreamworld of a hypothetical future. Whatever you do, you must make it contemporary. Make it matter now. You must give us a new path to tread, even if it carries the footfalls of old soles. You must not be immune to the weird urgency of today.

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.

We're used to thinking of fun as a sort of synonym for light pleasure.

The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.

Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone to do what you want. It's the process of working with the materials that you find and discovering what's possible with them.