Life writes the best stories.
I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.
People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.
Over the years, I have come to realize that no matter how satisfying fiction is, it becomes that much better when it actually happened.
I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.
I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.
My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that's what I do.
I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
My life is studded with a series of coincidences.
I've been in so many crazy experiences in my life. I was always moving when I was a kid. When I look back, it's hard for me not to feel that certain things just happen for a reason.
Let me tell you what, reality is better than any script you could ever write.
I don't plan life. Love, marriage, or relationships can't be pre-planned. Whenever it has to happen, it will happen.
A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.
You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.
Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories
That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.
Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.
Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens.
Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.
At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.
