“the clock is not merely a means of keeping track of the hours, but of synchronising the actions of men”

“The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning." Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise.”

“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”

“clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.”

“Age is a number to keep track of how many years you've been on the planet, not a tool to judge people by.”

“The question is how our own meanings are related to those of the universe as a whole. We could say that our action toward the whole universe is a result of what it means to be us.”

“Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get.”