“For a few moments, the secrets of the universe are opened to us. Life is a cheap parlor trick. That's the miserable truth.”

“For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.”

“The secret, of course, to any list is to keep it in a place where you’re bound to see it.”

“You're different. You're more perfect. Time is three things for most people, but for you, for us, just one. A singularity. One moment. This moment. Like you're the center of the clock, the axis on which the hands turn. Time moves about you but never moves you. It has lost its ability to affect you. What is it they say? That time is theft? But not for you. Close your eyes and you can start all over again. Conjure up that necessary emotion, fresh as roses.”

“Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying — and you have to keep trying — eventually you will come across the next item on your list.”

“Here's the truth: people, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain.”

“Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.”