“The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. … Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.”

“Was that, then, the way we do things? "Not knowing"— was that the way the most profound things happened?… Was the secret of never escaping from the greater life the secret of living like a sleepwalker?”

“If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.”

“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.”

“As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.”

“Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows.”

“Keep a watch out, fools! There are things out there and you know what happens when things arrive!”

“bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.”

“At his best, things do not happen to the artist; he happens to them.”

“It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?”