We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences….

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 bolde….

My wife, there's certain kinds of housework that she just doesn't see as necessary to do in the way that I do. Things like the state of our closet or….

Once you get yourself on that path where you're willing to find something delightful in laundry and in dishwashers, it means that you train yourself ….

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

Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more or less meaningful than….

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

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

The playful perspective is not meant to turn your life into a game or a jungle gym. It's rather that the activity is looking outside of yourself..

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

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

When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether..

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

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 universe is not particularly concerned with you..

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

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

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 ….

The idea of thinking of our relationships with people as also being structured by limitations and constraints can be useful..

The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited..

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 m….