“How arbitrary, this distinction of time. How like humans to have to cut the infinite down to something they could believe they controlled.”

“I didn't like having my inhibitions lowered. If i was going to cut loose, i wanted to be in control of just how loose i got.”

“Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter.”

“...To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us. Think how often you have wished to have more time for something, or wished you could go back a day and do something differently. When humanity is freed of time, old wrongs can be corrected before they are done.”

“I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time......why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.”

“How could the Buddha have believed that being incarnated as a human being was fortunate? Had he ever been to Georgia?”