“Things were good. He had things to look forward to. That, for now, was to be his definition of living - to always have a thing to look forward to.”

“Even if things are sometimes difficult there must always be good things to look forward to. Seeing you will be one of the big good things for me.”

“It's nice to have things to look forward to.”

“i know he's been looking forward to this--and i know that i've been looking forward to this. but now i have to stop looking forward and start looking at where i am. it's hard.”

“On the mainland he had always lived in the future, always looking forward to the completion of the project in hand. When he passed his exams, got the new contract, married Louise, paid off the mortgage: when, in turn, each of these dreams was realized, then, and only then, would he be happy. All were ends, to be reached by any means expedient or possible. He saw now that there were no such things as ends, only means: for ends were phantoms that melted away when approached, only to reform into other ends further off.”

“Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!”