Elizabeth Moon Quotes

Chaos is the undercurrent of everything that happens in life.

Life is nutty; anything can happen.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

It's just a crazy damned life, that's all.

My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

How fragile and unpredictable the course of history is.

Destiny and history are untidy.

One thing I could tell you is that I'm all over the place.

If destiny could bring two people together, then it could just as easily tear them apart, and, if it could tear two people apart, then it could just as easily bring them back together again. There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny. It wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary.

Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.

Living is merely the chaos of existence.

In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

We live in a bewildering world.

America is fickle. You never know what they're going to go for.

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

You can't plan anything, right? You can try.

The world is a very abnormal place.