"People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structu…"

"Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys."

"A “strange coincidence,” to use a phrase By which such things are settled nowadays."

"This is just too much of a coincidence to be coincidence."

"Of course, I’m only indulging in mankind’s vice of trying to make a symbol out of coincidence."

"“It was a coincidence.” “I don’t believe in coincidences.” “Neither do I. That’s a coincidence, isn’t it?”"

"My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the …"

"By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forg…"

"Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which — miraculously, it seems — …"

"Coincidence is a pimp and a cardsharper in ordinary fiction but a marvelous artist in the patterns of facts recollect…"