Daniel Handler Quotes

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen.

Stuff happens in football. Sometimes it goes in your favour, sometimes it doesn't.

Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.

Nothing is going to happen to me, or you, for that matter. Anything can happen, though. Anything can happen. But most always, just normal things happen, and people have happy lives.

Everything's serendipitous and there's no way of knowing who's going to get sick or who's going to get hit by a bus or who's going to fall in love and who's going to get pregnant. All the things that happen, it's up for grabs so it's kind of an exercise in surrender in a way.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'

I consider projects very deeply, but there's always a point in your life where there's a bit of randomity.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

I feel like everything has happened naturally.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.

I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, 'Someday I'm going to write a book with that title.'

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.