“Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.”

“It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.”

“Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.”

“Madness also makes folks uneasy; they fear contagion.”

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”

“Imagination travels faster than sight. Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.”

“In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.”

“Light travels faster than sound. Isn't that why people appear bright before you hear them speak?”

“THE DESCENT: Faster I travel into the cold of the mountain / than I return from it. / One can't see the sun. / Wait, I come closer / as beside me the frozen snow / dwindles.”

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”