Es ist heute schwer, die Leute für eine gute Sache auf die Beine zu bringen. Welche Sache kann uns noch etwas bedeuten, da die Nachrichten jeden Tag eine abstumpfende, endlose Folge von Katastrophen zu uns bringen?

Sun Bear, Leben mit der Kraft (1987)

It was nearly always mindless work, and as far as most employers were concerned, it was done by mindless people. Nonpeople rented for a few hours, a few days, a few weeks. It didn't matter.

Octavia Butler, Kindred (1979)

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by time. That is the life of men.

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)