What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.

We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.

You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.

That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some.