Paul Auster Quotes

I’m concerned about all areas of uncertainty.

Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down.

I did not know what my future was going to hold.

I don't know what's in store for me. I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring.

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

What happens tomorrow is going to happen tomorrow.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

I cannot guarantee anything.

My only fear is the unknown.

Uncertainty's not good for anybody.

I don't know the future.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

A week is a long time in politics. A month is an eternity.

Uncertainty is everywhere and you cannot escape from it.

...our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows.

I lived with uncertainty.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

I never know what day it is. Never, ever, ever.

Nothing is fixed or foolproof; I have no delusion about that.

You can only have a short sight because things change a lot. You can't plan what the years will bring.