“Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.”
“All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves.”
“As government expands, liberty contracts.”
“A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will--over and over.”
“The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.”
“I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it.”