Dennis Lehane Quotes

I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.

I never ever aspired for anything in life. I don't believe in planning or yearning for something very strongly. If something has to happen, it will happen.

Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: someone is there, someone isn't there. This girl is here. This food is here. I think the clever people are the ones who do a little as possible.

One has only to follow events, and you will be all right. The surest way is to take whatever comes as it comes.

I don't have a game plan. I never did, and it's too late to have one even if I wanted to.

I tend to let the chips fall where they may. I don't know if that's right or wrong.

I don't look forward to anything. I take things as they come.

I've always gone with the flow.

I prefer to go with the flow.

I just go with the flow.

I like to take things as they come.

I figure I just keep working and let the chips fall where they may, and if that means I end up having an eclectic career, so be it. For me to try to manipulate things or for me to try to tell people or the system how it should be...I'm just a kind of a more go-with-the-flow guy when it comes to my acting career.

So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

I'll be happy to go anywhere that will take me, honestly.

Sometimes the game does not go for you, no matter how much you try, but I do what I can and leave other people to their opinions on how I played.

I just go with the flow, you know.

I've never been a person to wish for stuff - I just take it as it comes.

I'm not a big planner. Things always sort of surprise me.

I've stopped making plans a long time back because they never work in my case. Now, I just take each day as it comes.

I don't mind what happens.

The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.

You just have to work with your discomfort. ... It’s challenging, but you have to dance the dance that the band’s playing. You can’t say: “I came here to Cha Cha and they’re playing a Waltz, godammit!”

I don't really dig for answers from the producers and writers that much. I let things happen the way they're going to happen.

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

Things just happen. What the hell.