Time Quote by George Alec Effinger

“He had great ideas for change but was too busy with other things to pursue them. He postulated. He pontificated. He spoke glowingly of…

— Abiodun Fijabi

“In his mind, the business of existence was about minimizing consequences. The plague had raised the stakes, but he had been in training for…

— Colson Whitehead

“He might be ragged and cold or even starving, but so long as he could read, think and watch for meteors, he was, as…

— George Orwell

“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all…

— Dave Eggers

“Or he’d watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars…

— Margaret Atwood

“He was a scholar, so goddamned intelligent he couldn’t see the writing on the wall. He wanted answers to life’s tragedies when their very…

— Skye Warren

“When he had first come to the village,it was the future that loomed huge.So much to plan.So much to learn. Then it was the…

— Margaret Craven

“...he lived with the consequences of self discovery and i suspected this was a more exacting hardship than anything the world might have worked…

— Don Dellilo

“He was wondering at the unreality of ideas, at the fading radiance of existence, and at the little absorptions that were creeping avidly into…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“All he felt now was envy. These people had expectations. Of the world, of the future, it didn't matter--expectation was such an innovative concept…

— Colson Whitehead

“He was such a throwaway thing of no importance, and yet he existed and would make that existence worthwhile.”

— Glyn Iliffe

“There were many tomorrows to be lived through his children. He could only hope that they would face them more courageously than he had,…

— Roy L. Pickering Jr