Paulo Coelho Quotes

It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

I've never followed a list in my life, and that's probably what has created so much nervous energy in my body.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

I think everybody's nuts.

Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.

There's a big difference between me and other YouTubers - a lot of them have big, concrete plans. I'm still this weird chicken with my head cut off. I don't know what I want to do next and haven't known that since I started.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.

I'm not sure there's a method to my madness.

My crutch was, in improvs, when in doubt, play insane, because you didn't have to excuse anything that came out of your mouth. It didn't have to make sense.

But I like the chaos. As long as it's happy chaos.

If you create a place where anything can happen, anything will happen.

There's something about a sign-off that seems predictable. I just say whatever comes to my mind, to the pleasure and horror of the control room, I'm sure.

Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

One should always be a little improbable.

There is nothing more marvelous or madder than real life.

I write [music] as a sow piddles.

Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

The thing that I like about public-access is that I am often in the middle of chaos.

I was in a taxi the other night, and we started talking about life and the taxi driver goes, 'Chaos and creativity go together. If you lose one per cent of your chaos, you lose your creativity.' I said that's the most brilliant thing I've heard. I needed to hear that years ago.