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

Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts.

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

If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.

I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it.

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

It's not even that finding laundry pleasurable or delightful should be our goal rather than finding television delightful. It's that both laundry and television can be delightful.

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

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.

God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today.

True love was a gift. Some people never recognized true love, while others allow true love to slip through their fingers

Children must be taught mathematics well in anywhere under every condition at every age and so we can have more rational, more logical societies!

A tale never loses in the telling.

Certainly when you read someone's diary [ superficial] that's a word that jumps to mind.

If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

A chance to try your technique is in one instant never to be regained, so try it without hesitation.

My goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT.

When you've got your man down, rub him out.

I think it's important that you know that I will never change. But I'll never stay the same either