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

“Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it.”

Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side
where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game, all
right—I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other
side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s
a game about it? Nothing. No game.
The best thing, though, in that museum was
that everything always stayed right where it
was. Nobody’d move. . . . Nobody’d be different.
The only thing that would be different would
be you.
The Catcher in the Rye