That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
First Theory . There is no Providence at all for anything in the Universe; all parts of the Universe, the heavens and what they contain, owe their origin to accident and chance; there exists no being that rules and governs them or provides for them. This is the theory of Epicurus.
The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.
Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.
I don't think crack happened by accident. I'm part conspiracy theorist, because you can't develop something that dangerous and have it not be planned.
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.
Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened.
Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin.
