“The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanityand I would not own oneexcept I miss appointments without it.”

“I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.”

“More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass....”

“We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely—those against private citizens or those against itself?The gravest crimes in the State’s lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.Or compare the degree of zeal devoted to pursuing the man who assaults a policeman, with the attention that the State pays to the assault of an ordinary citizen. Yet, curiously, the State’s openly assigned priority to its own defense against the public strikes few people as inconsistent with its presumed raison d’etre.”

“All professions are conspiracies against the laity.”

“Biological clock? I don't even own a watch.”