“The masses-I love em-they rush for red lights, risking everything to capture a few seconds, only to get home and waste their lives.”

— Arthur Nersesian

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American writer 1958

Elena Ferrante book The Story of a New Name

Source: The Story of a New Name

“Red lights are like queues. They are for people who have time to waste.”

Stephen Clarke book A Year in the Merde

On traffic
A Year in the Merde (2005)

“The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact. Every play-by-play description on the radio, the home runs and strikeouts, even that's delayed a few minutes. Even live television is postponed a couple seconds. Even Sound and light can only go so fast.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 1

“Alain Johannes: How come everything's red though? Is it a red light or…”

Josh Homme (1973) American musician

Over the Years and Through the Woods, ("How to Handle a Rope") commentary footage (2005)
Over the Years and Through the Woods

“In other words, you must not waste a second of this deliciousness which for him was life and being a great poet. That you savor every, everything that happened. I want to get ripe.”

Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books

NOW interview (2004)
Context: The ripeness was a letter that John Keats wrote to his brother who emigrated to America describing what it was like to have a peach or piece of a peach in his mouth. And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it. Let it go through your palette. Let it lie on your tongue. Let it melt a little bit. Let it run from the corners. It's like describing the most incredible sex orgy. And then, you bite. But, it must be so ripe. It must be so delicious. In other words, you must not waste a second of this deliciousness which for him was life and being a great poet. That you savor every, everything that happened. I want to get ripe.