Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

Things are electric. If we don't make up our minds on what we are going to do ... there will be pandemonium. Of course, if we do there may also be pandemonium.

I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.

You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

I think people have all faced decisions at times where you never know.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

Nothing about 'Brotherhood' is ever wrapped up in a nice package.

Very often at the end of 'The Sopranos' you get the feeling that its not under control, you should be very worried, and life is kind of really, really messed up at lot of times. It leaves you feeling very disconcerted. That was kind of the point of it.

History is messy, undetermined, and layered.

I don't really like to say, 'This is where I'll be in five years,' because I truly have no idea.

I like being out on a limb and not know what we're doing and why: just deal with it, the mayhem, you know?

People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.

I think it is a burden... that we constantly realise that there isn't that much rhyme or reason to why something happens. If we think about that too much, it can make all of our decisions very stressful.

You can't predict what's gonna happen, you can't predict if people are going to participate, you can't predict if there'll be interference.

The point is [...] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

Control is an illusion.

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.

And tomorrow--who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows--it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable.

The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.

Only time - whatever that may be - will tell.

When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.