Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
I have indeed lived nominally fifty years, but deduct out of them the hours which I have lived to other people, and not to myself, and you will find me still a young fellow. For that is the only true Time, which a man can properly call his own – that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people’s Time, not his.