Think of all the time that's before you.' 'Time,' said the Phoenix, 'is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction.

There is no such thing as time.

I have lived in these two months at a pace which generously counterbalances 500 years of life in the desert.

I am old, I am weary.

I feel as if I ought to lay my egg, and lay me down to my fiery sleep.