"People tend to assume that as we get older, years naturally start feeling shorter and shorter -- that this is nature's way. But this is crap. Maybe what's really happening is that we have increased the information density of our culture to the point where our perception of time has become all screwy"

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"You know how somebody says, 'Remember that party at the beach last year?' and you say, 'Oh God, was that last year? It feels like last month'? If I am going to live a year, I want my whole year's worth of year. I don't want it feeling like only one month. Everything I do is an attempt to make time 'feel' like time again -- to make it feel longer. I get my time in bulk."