Thomas Pynchon Quotes

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

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

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Honestly, I don't believe in luck.

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

That power Which erring men call Chance.

But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

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.

I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.

I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.

I don't believe in coincidence.

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

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

Every single moment is a coincidence.

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.

There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.

Luck and misfortune are closely intertwined.