“Time is a lot like an exquisitely beautiful young woman who feigns naivete and simple-mindedness but is actually conserving an intelligence powerful enough to establish or shatter worlds. To be blunt, the way you approach her matters. She can smell the most minute evidence of any kind of deception of self or other from a billion years away. Your approach generates her reply, and her reply restructures your mind and opportunities in its likenesses, so you -really- want the right approach here. You get only one or two passes in a lifetime. Make them good.”

— an anonymous temporonaut