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

“The clock in the church tower said 4.32, as it had done for three hundred years. It was right once a day and that was better than no clock at all.”

“A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book may create an illusion of reality as a clock creates an illusion of time; a book may be real, just as a clock is real (both more real, perhaps, than those ideas to which they allude); but let's not kid ourselves - all a clock contains is wheels and springs and all a book contains is sentences.”

“Something tells me organizing a protest against your husband’s client has got to be even worse than selling his Tiffany clocks.”

“No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.”

“Clocked you before you clocked me, Gwen.”