Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.

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.

Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.