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Reality (like big cities) has been extended and ramified in recent years. This has influenced time.

—ADOLFO BIOY CASARES

One can be a lover of Space and its possibilities [. . .] I am also aware that Time is a fluid medium for the culture of metaphors [. . .] Space is a swarming in the eyes; and time a singing in the ears.

—VLADIMIR NABOKOV

Distances are only the relation of space to time and vary with that relation [. . .] There are optical errors in time as well as space [. . .] The only real journey, the only Fountain of Youth, would be to travel not towards new landscapes, but with new eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them can see, or can be. . . .

—MARCEL PROUST

I don’t think you can stand outside the universe.

—KURT VONNEGUT

This notion about each creature viewing the world differently from all other creatures—not everyone would agree with me [. . .] We have a fictitious world; that is the first step.

—PHILIP K. DICK

Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we were meant for another planet altogether, with other arrangements, and other laws, and other, grimmer skies. I try to imagine it, our true place, off on the far side of the galaxy, whirling and whirling.

—JOHN BANVILLE

Oh, let us rush to see this world!

—JOHN CHEEVER