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The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.

Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.

When somebody tells you a story, as long as that story lasts, you're caught in this sort of timeless moment.

The telling of stories creates the real world.

In a great many stories that deal with time travel, there's usually somebody who knows how time travel works. They lay out the rules.

Some of the stories I admire seem to zero in on one particular time and place. There isn't a rule about this. But there's a tidy sense about many stories I read. In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.