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.

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.

If you don’t stand sincere by your wordshow sincere can the people be?Take great care over words, treasure them.1.17

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

However well organized the foundations of life may be life must always be full of risks.

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.

I just did whatever it took to keep making music - I slept on couches. You would be amazed at how far $20 can go if you stretch it out.

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.

She can't see me staring at her cause I'm always wearing shades.

Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.