"There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present."
(Joseph Heller, Something Happened)

"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. An odd moment in the afternoon."
(Jean-Paul Sartre, La Nausée)

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
(Douglas Adams)

"Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn."
(Delmore Schwartz, Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge, 1959)

"Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"We've erased a lot of the distinctions between night and day, between weekday and weekend. Our notions of time and space are collapsing."
(Susan Orlean, American author, Saturday Night in America)