“Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.”

“Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.”

“The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.”

“The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening.”

“One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.”

“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”