“Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. ...” — Jonathan Carroll Quote

“Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.”

“If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human beings must be tormented throughout their lives in one way or another. If you are fortunate enough to have risen to a social level where no one does it to you for free, then you must pay for the service.”

“Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.”

“Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.”

“I feel like a cliche.”

“I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late.”

“The speed you need to work on your dreams is beyond comprehension. Waste no more time on frivolities.”

“Is déjà vu actually the specter of false timelines that never happened but did, casting their shadows upon reality?”

“Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last forever.”

“Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.”

“The only good thing for men therefore is to be diverted from thinking of what they are, either by some occupation which takes their mind off it, or by some novel and agreeable passion which keeps them busy, like gambling, hunting, some absorbing show, in short by what is called diversion.”

“Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.”