Someone telling you about the future did not prepare you for it. Nothing prepared you for it.
The Gravity of BirdsMy one regret was that I never photographed the bat before we drank it.
Glory O'Brien's History of the FutureWe should kill the future, so the present has no choice but to retreat into the past.
99 Cents For Some NonsenseYou can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there.
The Summer of Skinny DippingHe focused on the world before him; the illusions and the mysteries of the future haunted his eyes.
Shattered IllusionsA man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays