Luke Rhinehart Quotes

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

I never make a choice thinking about the results. I'm never gonna take a role or a project thinking where this could - what this could bring me or something like that, because you've got no control about anything, actually.

Play is experimenting with chance.

Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

I think whenever I've thought something might go well, it hasn't, and when I've thought, 'Oh yeah, just chuck it out there,' that's when it kicks off, so now, I don't claim to understand anything.

No, I never planned my life.

If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.

It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse.

All thoughts emit a throw of dice

Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?

Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

You never know what's going to happen and when it's going to happen.

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

I never predict anything, and I never will.

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.