William P. Young Quotes

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

Tomorrow doesn't really exist.

On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen.

Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.

The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.

We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

You look like a ghost," Bailey says. He can think of no better way to describe it. "You appear the same way to me, so which of us is real?

I understand that there are a lot of things you cannot control in this world.

The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.

What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.