The more you're drowning in familiarity, the better the fun is. It requires less novelty to produce even more gratification. And it's something that didn't come from you. It was about the other thing - the thing you were experiencing, or the people you were with, or the mechanism you were operating, or whatever it might be.

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.

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

You allow yourself to discover the things that are already there when you play.

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.

You can experience play at work, not because you're messing around or wasting time or something, but because you're looking really deeply and seriously at things and asking what is possible, what can be done with them, what new ideas might emerge?

The universe is not particularly concerned with you.