Clifford D. Simak Quotes

Our bodies are the time machine.

In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.

To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?

It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats.

I'm unstuck in time. Also, I juggle like mad and have made myself efficient.

Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing - and that was a sad moment for me because I wanted to stay in this beautiful, unreal world.

I spent a week there one afternoon.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.

Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging.

I once aged 90 years old in one episode.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

I hope they invent a machine in which you type in the age you want to be, and it lifts and separates everything nonsurgically.

The one thing humans can't control is time, but what if one has the power to do so is the core theme of '24.'

I don't think it is about stalling or curing: it's about reversing. Curing gives you the impression of immortality. Stalling gives you the impression that you'll be 85 forever, which is not great.

You can reverse your biological age by changing your perceptions.

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

You have the power to reverse your age.

To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

In music the present is extended.

It's like time travel only, you know, slower.

Infinity: Time on an ego trip.