The Talisman has been missing for several years or so. And no one knows about it — except Galactic Central and the — what would you call it? — the hi… - Clifford D. Simak

The pendulum had swung too far, as always, and now was swinging back, and the horror of intolerance had been loosed upon the land.

If there could only be more time, he thought. But, of course, there never was. There was not the time right now and there would never be. No matter how many centuries he might be able to devote, there'd always be so much more knowledge than he'd gathered at the moment that the little he had gathered would always seem a pittance.

We thought all the time that we were passing through time when we really weren't, when we never have. We've just been moving along with time. We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.