“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character… Would you slow down? Or speed up?”

“If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.”

“I would really like to slow down the speed of reading with continual punctuation marks. For I would like to be read slowly.”

“I feel like a spinning top or a Dreidel
The spinning don't stop when you leave the cradle
You just slow down”

“Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.”

“All this could be enough -- we would leave an Impressionist painting at this stage -- probably much earlier -- and leave it possibly with great satisfaction.”

“Days of speed and slow time Mondays -
Pissing down with rain on a boring Wednesday…”

“Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back. ”

“Death did not come to my mother
Like an old friend.
She was a mother, and she must
Conceive him. Up and down the bed she fought crying
Help me, but death
Was a slow child
Heavy.”

“Time cannot be slowed down. Either ride with it or increase your speed to get there much faster.”