Paul Auster Quotes

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.

He [the historian] should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

You can't really explain why things happen.

Life sort of works out the way it works out.

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

I don't believe in coincidence.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Every single moment is a coincidence.