It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

When God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me ‚Trey‘ because I’m William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I’m also known.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

I’ve rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It’s a serious problem overseas, but it’s confusing and frightening.

I bought some instant water one time but I didn’t know what to add to it.

I think in the ’70s that there was a general feeling of chaos, a feeling that the idea of the ’60s as ‚ideal‘ was a misnomer. Nothing seemed ideal anymore. Everything seemed in-between.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down – oh my God, it’s a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

I’m used to seeing it, but it’s weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it’s kind of surreal to have one in your house.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

On the whole, we think of our consumers – other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it’s better to have it clearer than confusing.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Comedy isn’t necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it’s a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.

If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I’d just go back to Virginia.

I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, ‚We’ve got to evacuate. There’s a hurricane’s coming.‘

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office – anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

The secret to humor is surprise.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

It was something I never expected to – I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.