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

There are personality traits, or baggage from their backgrounds, goals that they have and the first thing I need to do is understand and then acknowledge and then accept those properties. That's kind of the baseline requirement to have a productive relationship.

There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.

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.

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.

Any phrase that suggests play is this domain that's the opposite of work, or the thing that you do when you're done working, should trouble us. Because it means that play is always relegated to the exhaust of life. It's the thing that you do after you do the important stuff, it's what you do on your own time.