“Things do make sense at the time we do them. Then later on, they may make absolutely no sense at all. Isn’t that amazing? Actually often they don’t make any sense even while we’re doing them.”

“Sometimes things just don’t make sense, and sometimes they make even less sense.”

“A lot of things in life won't make sense, so be sure to make the most sense out of those that do.”

“We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build up the world with it. Babies do it, we all do it; we filter out most of what our senses report.”

“History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn’t fit. And often that is quite a lot.”

“[H]istory, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn't make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn't fit. And often that is quite a lot.”