“In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.""They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.""Then there are those who think their bodies don't exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o'clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock.”

“The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.”

“A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.”

“Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve,I want to tie the two arms together,And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.”

“For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.”

“The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.”