“Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.”
“Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.”
“What happens once will never happen again. But what happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
“If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.”
“You know what happens when you keep a dog locked away from every living thing, except you visit once a day and kick the shit out of him?"Perreault laughed nervously. "Someone actually tried that?""What happens is, the dog's a social animal, and it gets so lonely it actually looks forward to the shit-kicking. It asks to be kicked. It begs.”
“Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.”