“Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.”

“Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past.”

“I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.”

“You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”

“That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.”

“[C]locks indeed must have thier sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?”

“Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.”