“I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.”

“Sometimes the Worst things that happen in our lives,
put us directly on the Path to the
Best things that will ever happen to us.”

“My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.”

“I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen”

“I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.”

“What happened to your hand?
It got hit by a mirror.
How'd that happen?
I lost my temper at myself.”

“Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.”

“A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House…”

“I never had, and still do not have, the perception of feeling my personal identity. I appear to myself as the place where something is going on, but there is no ‘I’, no ‘me.’ Each of us is a kind of crossroads where things happen. The crossroads is purely passive; something happens there. A different thing, equally valid, happens elsewhere. There is no choice, it is just a matter of chance.”

“Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.”