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

The past is always tense and the future, perfect.

This is Year Zero.

We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.