“Jace Herondale. Once more a Herondale is the bringer of my deliverance. I should have anticipated.”

“I anticipated witnessing in my lifetime the disappearance of our species. But the Gods have been against me.”

“Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.”

“My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.”

“It is much to my advantage that several of my pictures should be seen together, as it displays to advantage their varieties of conception and also of execution, and what they gain by the mellowing hand of time which should never be forced or anticipated. Thus my pictures when first coming forth have a comparative harshness which at the time acts to my disadvantage.”

“With respect to the cohesion and capillary action of liquids, I have had the good fortune to anticipate Mr. Laplace in his late researches, and I have endeavoured to show, that my assumptions are more universally applicable to the facts, than those which that justly celebrated mathematician has employed.”

“I don't anticipate trouble and so I anticipate trouble.”

“A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.”

“They say anticipation makes pleasure more intense.”

“The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valéry once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an expectation-generator. It mines the present for clues, which it refines with the help of the materials it has saved from the past, turning them into anticipations of the future. And then it acts, rationally, on the basis of those hard-won anticipations.”