David Levithan Quotes

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

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.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

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

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".

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

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?

I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to lead me, but I follow it.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.

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

In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a dice to decide what to do. They were so shocked and fascinated that I knew I had to write the book.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

When you are live you never know what is going to happen.

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

I like life to surprise me.

For me, everything has always been an accident.

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.

I never want anything to be too predictable.

You could never plan your life in a million years.

Never in my life have I thought, 'What's next?' It's just like 'Finding Dory.' Things just happen.

I don't think I've decided much in my life. Don't you think life just happens?