“Your time is precious so this book is short and to the point.”

“Thank You. Life is short and TBR lists are long. I know time is precious and I thank you for spending yours with this book.”

“Our time is so precious. You're holding out for someone who you really want to spend all your time with. Otherwise, there's no point to it.”

“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”

“The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one...”

“If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.”