Almost all of us are gasping for more time. We are starving. And all the devices and techniques that our inventive culture offers only increase the yearning for time — like the food of hell that makes the eater hungrier. Our cell phones, computers, and fax machines and the countless other inventions that "save time" only starve us more and more, exactly like the food of hell. We are paying for these things with our time, with our lives, which is our time.
— Jacob Needleman, Time and the Soul