There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.

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.

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.

He who having lost one ideal refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

I could be the driver - the Uber guy saying, "I used to be in films years ago... ."

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide by the choices I make.

Love is a secret society, a community for two.

Don't look to anyone for your needs, for the One who created you, waters you.

It's as though I've been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here

O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.