It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.
If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.
I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.
What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.
Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.
I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.
The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.
I'm a nearly uncontrollable Geoff Dyer fan, who I think is one of the most comically brilliant writers today.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.