“Perhaps you should consider your difficulty in getting past Wendlyn's naval defences to be a sign that you should stop playing at being a god.""Playing?" The King smiled, his crooked teeth glowing yellow in the firelight. "I am not playing. And this is not a game.”
“Play hard to get. You should be.”
“I thought the traveler pretty much deserved what he got and that you should never play games.”
“You don't stop playing because you get old, you get old because you stop playing.”
“Bond believes we are his pawns. He thinks no-one observes his game. But I am No-One. I observe everything, and to play with Nemo is to play games with Destruction.”
“this is life and all there is of life; to play the game, to play the cards we get; play them uncomplainingly and play them to the end. the playing of the game is the foregetting of self and play it bravely to the end”