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

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

—Frank Zappa, 1989

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

—Ben Jonson, 1601

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

sTime: Acropolis photograph

sTime: Lord Byron’s Dream

Can there be a more terrifying revelation than the present moment? Reconsidering Virginia Woolf’s time-warped novel Orlando.

During convalescence it grows hard to tell the difference between when to pass the time and when to allow time to pass through.

It’s possible to live in more than one time, more than one history of the world, without feeling a pressing need to reconcile them.