“Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.”

“He waited, but nothing happened.
"Boom? Was something suppose to happen there?"”

“Nothing happens until something moves.”

“Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.”

“That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own.”

“Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere”

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”

“All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.”

“I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)”

“[T]here is always the possibility of change. If it happened in South Africa, why can't it happen anywhere?”