“He knocked absurdly on the skull like a man impatient for a door to open. His eyes glazed over. He appeared to be in the grasp of something beyond the reach of ordinary mortals. 'Time is slowing,' he said in a leaden voice. 'Each moment grows and fattens like a drop of rain on a window sash, waiting to fall.” Perception Of RealityEdgar Allan PoePerception Is RealityTime S Arrow Book:The Port-Wine Stain Source: The Port-Wine Stain
“We may not realize it, but every point during the passage of our lives is a point of no return -- except for what memory permits.” Huck FinnLiterary Character AppropriationTime S ArrowPast As Future Book:The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel Source: The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel
“It was necessary to invent history in order to invent the future. The sense of necessity in Cromwell and Lenin (and even in Jefferson) springs from an obsession with time, change, an obsession with cause and effect that starts to make the effect seem like the cause of its own cause. The future is the cause of the past, and we play antiquarian games to reassure ourselves that the past is past and different so that we can believe that the future will be different too.” PastPurposeFutureTime S ArrowRaison D Etre Book:The King's Evil Source: The King's Evil