“If you put a clock in a bottle, with time it will crack,as like money, as like love, as like a beautiful mind, empty of a soul.”

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

“The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.”

“My love is like an empty bottle of wine. If you’re wondering, my ex wife drank it all.”

“Time flows like a canoe floats, and my love would fit in your purse if you’d just empty your money into my wallet.”

“The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.”