William Faulkner Quotes

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

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

How fragile and unpredictable the course of history is.

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

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

The world is unpredictable.

Chaos is the undercurrent of everything that happens in life.

It's just a crazy damned life, that's all.

You never can tell with bees.

Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

Pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know.

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

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

History seems to be so clumsy.