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.

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.

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

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.

If you're ashamed to stand by your colours, you better seek for another flag.

Any time you do a movie there are going to be war wounds that you end up getting.

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

Designers, stay away from corporations that want you to lie for them

I think habits and behaviors are very hard to change. And they're even harder when you're back home.

My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads.

I think people can find a breath and listen sometimes.

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings