“No accident ever comes late; it always arrives precisely on time.”

“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”

“Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.”

“Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.”

“You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson or an equation.”

“Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.”

“This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.”

“To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called — and to all the merry maniacs and happy fools who are fortunate enough to stumble into one: may none of them arrive too late!”

“Here I am
and there is my body
dancing on glass
In accident time where there are no accidents
You have no choice
the choice comes after”

“The factory workers say that it’s impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, "Where did you get the watch?"”