Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle.
Thief Of Time: (Discworld Novel 26) (ed. Random House, 2008) - ISBN: 9781407035284