Life Is Too Short For Chess.

Life is too short for chess.

Henry James Byron

The gods we prayed to when we were young used up their time so long ago. They cannot answer anymore.

The Sandman: The Kindly Ones Neil Gaiman

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Todd Faber; The Sandman: Fables and Reflections Neil Gaiman

It is sometimes a mistake to climb, it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt.

Dream; The Sandman: Fables and Reflections Neil Gaiman

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

Small Gods; Terry Pratchett

Vimes had never got on with any game much more complex than darts. Chess in particular had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the kings lounged about doing nothing that always got to him; if only the pawns united, maybe talked the rooks round, the whole board could've been a republic in a dozen moves.

Thud!; Terry Pratchett