There's no crime like the present.

-WashingtonTimes
  In the week in which three persons jumped theWhite House fence, 25 May.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

-Weil, Simone
On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (translated by Richard Rees,1968).

The Pastöthe dark unfathom'd retrospect! The teeming gulföthe sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

-Whitman,Walt(er)
Passage to India, opening verse.

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.

-Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier
  Mrs Goforth.The MilkTrain Doesn't Stop HereAnymore, sc.3