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.

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.

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

Spend a moment every day thinking of someone to love.

To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.

Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate.

I'm a workaholic. I've been doing my job for a long time.

Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

Bad things happen, but you can still live.

I'm not a gamer. But I am very aware of the escapism of drugs. In my mind those kind of do the same thing. They dull us to the aches and pains of our status quo.

Go out of your way to talk optimistically about everything.

I don't think he likes girls", I said. "Or boys. Look at the horror on his face. He doesn't look like a people person.

You are the instrument of your own illumination.