We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force.

Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play, the thing you choose to 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.

Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts.

My lawnmower can't change in the way that my son can or that I can.

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.

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