If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.

The past is always tense and the future, perfect.