Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer - even as Wells thought about him - or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.

Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.

The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.