"You Westerners have your watches," the leader observed. "But we Taliban have time."

Doing a job properly takes the time it takes.

There used to be a time if you didn't have money to buy something, you just didn't buy it.

In an increasingly transitory world, the cellphone is becoming the one fixed piece of our identity.

Citizenship requires a commitment of time and attention, a commitment people cannot make if they are lost to themselves in an ever-accelerating cycle of work and consumption.

There are great benefits to connectedness, but we haven't wrapped our minds around the costs.

Being in the water alone, surfing, sharpens a particular kind of concentration, an ability to agree with the ocean, to react with a force that is larger than you are.

One of the greatest compliments I have ever given anyone I dated is that being with him was like being alone.

Each additional happy friend increases a person's probability of being happy by about 9%.

The symphony of Manhattan Island is the kind of music people would pay good money to be able to silence, if only there were a switch.

"This place is really nice and tranquil."

For too long, the conventional wisdom has been that social conservatives are the upholders of family values, whereas liberals are the proponents of a polymorphous selfishness. This isn't true, and, every once in a while, liberals might point that out.

We are most human when we feel dull. Lolling around in a state of restlessness is one of life's greatest luxuries.

We are not stressed because we have no time, but rather, we have no time because we are stressed.

Staring blankly at the seat back in front of you for the entire flight is no longer permitted on my airline. If you have brought nothing to read, a book will be provided for your use, at a charge of fifty dollars.

Bookshelves are not for displaying books you've read.

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