Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play, the thing you choose to do.

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.

When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.

Either the key to a man's wallet is in his heart, or the key to a man's heart is in his wallet. So, unless you express your charity, you are locked inside your greed.

These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.

I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road

Sometimes feeling and thinking are one and the same.

You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.

The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.

If you want to get along, go along.

When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing