“Life is a borrowed moment of time”

“Borrowed time and stolen moments are those of which we take the most ownership.”

“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”

“Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.”

“I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more...”

“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”