“If you are killing time, are you damaging eternity?”
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
“And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.”
“You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.”
“Time cures you first, and then it kills you.”
“I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.”