“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”

“Life is like a game. And like any other game, it's important to have rules and a goal. The point is to enjoy the game, not to win.”

“Life is more fun if you play games.”

“I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.”

“Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?”

“Since when do we even play games?”

“Since when don’t we play games? Games of life, games of death. Games of love, of hope, of chance, of despair, and of all the myriad wonders in between.”

I rolled my eyes at the newcomer. “Hello, Carter.”

“The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.”

“Those are useful games which exercise the hand and the eye at the same time, and thus do part of the business which the schoolmaster is too ignorant or too learned to do. Games are also played according to certain rules, and thus unruly boys are taught to respect order and discipline even in their play. I hope I shall be excused if I say that boys' play is sometimes the best thing that they do at school. But let there be reasonable limits to it. Moderation in all things is the golden precept; let there be excess in nothing, not even in book learning.”

“White people love playing ‘divide & rule’. We should not play their game.”

“Play the game, but don’t believe in it – that much you owe yourself … Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate.”