“Things have a way of turning out so badly.”

“Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?”

“Things do not turn out the way you think they will.”

“Be bold! That's one way
Of getting through life.
So I turn upon her
And point out that,
Faced with the wickedness
Of things, she does not shiver.”

“As hard as it was, as terrible and unfair as the way things turned out, i wouldn't have traded the few days i spent with him for anything”

“I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better.”

“I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.”

“The 1930s — a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic American sentence because there were so many things that could not be said any other way.”

“That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”

“That's the thing about human life--there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”