The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.

It is not true that people who accomplish things don't waste time and that people who waste time don't accomplish things. The very concept is ill-informed. You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had.

I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.