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.

When we think about play and games and the situations in which having fun is seen as an outcome, they often have to do with repetition. You're returning to something again, and even despite that similarity, you squeeze something new out of it.

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.

We're used to thinking of fun as a sort of synonym for light pleasure.

If you stop someone who's talking about something being fun, and say "Well what do you mean?" it's almost impossible to answer.

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.

We have so many choices that it's only always our fault if we're malcontent.