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

We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences. That takes for granted that there's not fun or play to be found in the work itself.

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

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.

The problem with fun is we really don't know what fun means at all.

If you think about the contexts in which we talk about things being fun, often there's a certain kind of misery or effort that's involved with it. The difficulty of travel, getting all your bags packed and your work done and navigating the airports and all that. That sort of struggle.

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