“The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.”

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”

“These be
Three silent things:
The falling snow…the hour
Before the dawn…the mouth of one
Just dead.”

“I am not menopausal. I just wanted half an hour alone. Is that too much to ask? A crappy half hour!”

“Dawns and sunsets. The Magic Hour -- when the sun and the moon can be in the sky at the same time -- a magic and disturbing occurrence for a child. And for an adult.”

“Contrary to what you might think, I don't spend every waking hour thinking about boys."
"Just most waking hours?”

“… It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?”

“Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.”

“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”

“I think the sun is a flower,
That blooms for just one hour.”