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.

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

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

If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.

We have been trained to think we have enormous power over the world. Whatever you dream, you can do. Anything can be bent to your will. But actually isn't it much more interesting to imagine that you're quite small?

We're stuck in these situations with other people and our stuff and our jobs, and thinking that we can extract ourselves from those seems doomed to me. Instead, how can we live within those systems of constraints? We don't have to enjoy them, exactly, but at least acknowledge that those boundaries are real and that they structure our response to the world. And then once you do that, you allow yourself to say "I did my best given the circumstances."