Jim Grant on time

I think Samuel Johnson said, "Reputation is the one thing that no man can give to himself."  I would say that time is something else that is not for sale.  You can't buy reputation, nor can you buy the heartbeats.  So as life goes on, you become to covet those heartbeats and husband them, and expend them in ways... rather more carefully than when you were known for throwing them around like confetti.  They are not.  

~ Jim Grant, interview with William Green, 1:48:10 mark, August 20, 2022