Janet Fitch Quotes

The characters in my novels, from the very first one, are always on some quixotic effort of attempting to control something that is uncontrollable - some element of the world that is essentially random and out of control.

My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

I think that the reason why 'Goats' is called 'Goats' is because you can't give direction to goats. They do what they want. That's the point of this film.

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

Life is nutty; anything can happen.

If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.

Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

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.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

I think I'm like a free spirit.

Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor.

The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.

I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.

I felt really free, like I could do anything, because no one would know what to expect.

I don't like routine and I don't like rules.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

One thing you cannot control is nature.

I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.