"I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you."

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So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.

— W. H. Auden