“You do trust him, though, Giddon?""Holt, who is stealing your sculptures and is of questionable mental health?""Yes.""I trusted him five minutes ago. Now I'm at a bit of a loss.""Your opinion five minutes ago is good enough for me.”
“If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.”
“Five minutes ago it was five minutes late, and my watch is five minutes slow.”
“Sometimes what I did five minutes ago scared the fuck out of me five minutes later.”
“There was no up, there was no down. There was a steady, nauseated life five minutes ago, but nothing five minutes from now. And then, very suddenly, there was no 'now.”
“I did it thirty-five minutes ago.”