We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.
Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.
I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.
The worse the passage the more welcome the port.
[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.
Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.