Susan Orlean Quotes

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

The order I found was the order of disorder

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

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead

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

Life's messy.

Chaos is what we have. That is what I believe.

I set my monkey on the log, and ordered him to do the Dog. He wagged his tail and shook his head, and he went and did the Cat instead.

What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.

It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.

When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order.

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

Life [had] replaced logic.

I'm chaos, I've always been chaos, my point on Earth is chaos.

Living is merely the chaos of existence.

We're living in such a fantasy world where nothing makes sense anymore.