“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste...” — Jack London Quote

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

“Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?”

“He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.”

“I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.”

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”

“If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.”

“Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.”

“Take the gifts that you are handed both foolish and fine. With time, what is remembered will sparkle like silver wrapped in velvet the deep color of wine.”

“And so I told myself to take that one. Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. The hands were extended, slightly off the horizontal at a faint angle, like a gull tilting into the wind.”

“Your face, now confined to this tiny screen, radiates elegantly. Time, it seems, has been kind to you.”

“Immortality is not endless life. It is endless memory.”

“Always ask yourself what you have achieved within a given time and the product of your life”