That black, maddening firmament; that vast cosmic ocean, endlessly deep in every direction, both Heaven and Pandemonium at once; mystical Zodiac, speckled flesh of Tiamat; all that is chaos, infinite and eternal. And yet, it’s...

What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.

Her voice was small and distant, like she’d already left the room.

All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth.Don ‘ t ever try to stop truth. It ‘ s the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.

Do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ossified, must always give way to new life and the birth of new things. Before...

Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn’t understand stability. He’s confused it with rigidity. Our political and economic and social leaders drool about stability constantly. It’s their favorite word, next to ‘power.’ ‘Gotta stabilize...

We could not be fulfilled if we weren’t inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage...

Awake,chaos:we have napped.

When freedom destroys order, the yearning for order will destroy freedom.”At that point the words left or right will make no difference. They are only two roads to the same end. There is no difference...

Codependency is a learned set of behaviors, thought processes, and habits. When combined together, they fit a very loose definition. All people exhibit these traits to some degree, but some of us allow them to...

just kidding.

They’re in chaos. They’re as far from unity as a knife fight. They’re stabbing each other in the back over profits on a proposal that doesn’t have great odds of passage in the first place.

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it’s something we can’t easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen?...

Painted faces laughed. It was like a mad carnival where everyone was oblivious, lost in the bliss of chaos, a throng unaware of a bomb planted beneath thefloorboards.

It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done

She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he said, what she...

When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.

The truth is sealed. Life goes on. Till one day, history changed… Like thief in the night, aliens invade human. Chaos happens prior to the new order of coexistence. The truth is sealed. Life goes...

Sometimes your wish can become chaos … be careful what you wish for!

He felt a deep urge to put some order in this chaos. Leaning against a large standing-stone by the wayside, he drew out his dreambook and began to write.

[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. “The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are marching. Men and women are dying everywhere, in huge numbers. Fields are abandoned...

–Don’t you think the vast majority of the chaos in the world is caused by a relatively small group of disappointed men?–––I don’t know. Could be.–The men who haven’t gotten the work they expected to...

If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.

I don’t encourage chaos to initiate a revolution. The only reason to revolt is because the people find the government revolting.

Half the lies I tell are not true. To tell you the truth, half the true tales I tell are lies.

Writing is the way I make sense of a chaotic world. I see the tumultuous backdrop of humanity around me, and I feel it is my duty (mainly to myself) to create a sense of...

One person’s data is another person’s noise.

design is so important because chaos is so hard

Creating happens in the midst of chaos.

If you’d saved the girl, you’d be a hero. Next time.

I want us to enter into the laughter of the God that is before, during and after the experience of being human, to swim in grace, to revel in messiness, to find joy in the...

You carry the message you’ve been seeking, but realization of it is found in healthy retrospection, not among the wilderness of chaotic noise.

It was all confusion and chaos. I never want to experience that again. I’m still confused for words.

We all were shocked. We saw it burning. We called the fire department. We didn’t know how to behave. Chaos was everywhere.

She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling...

Just like in the eye of the storm there is always comfort within the chaos. Becoming aware of this however, is your responsibility.

Many people look at their past and bemoan their mistakes. Those errors in judgment, behavior, hurting others, and the wrong decisions may be what consumes them now. It does not have to be that way,...

Change will not successfully happen unless the emotional component is solved.

Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail, and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but refuse....

the pattern appears so ethereally, that it is hard to remember that the shape is an attractor. It is not just any trajectory of a dynamical system. It is the trajectory toward which all other...

The reflection of chaos is creativity.

I want you here. I don’t care if it’s a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

We are born. We die. Somewhere in between we live. And how we live is up to us. That’s it.

For an instant I saw before me the young girl this used to be.

One cannot shape the world without being reshaped in the process. Each gain of power requires its own sacrifice.

No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.

Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements has been brought to order–that windows, doors and other details have...

All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.

Men in western governments who were themselves are often modern men, did not understand that freedom without chaos is not a magic formula which can be implanted anywhere. Rather, being modern men, it was their...