For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.

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.

Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun."

Fun doesn't have anything to do with pleasure, necessarily. I think this will be terrifically unintuitive for people.

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

A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don't have to think too hard.

Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or at art or at swimming, or making your parents or your in-laws not be annoying in the way that they're annoying, these are sometimes doomed goals.