For paranoia was Zig's late style: How else but through networks and conspiracies could he fashion a target big enough for his outrage? Richard usually found paranoia uninteresting, insofar as it swept away the incidental, which was the real grist of history.

— Garth Risk Hallberg

You can change your life or not change it. It really doesn’t matter in the end.Life as humans live it is too fleeting, too incidental, too minisculefor the universe to keep forever.So just do good to others; be good, allbecause it makes you happy,happy beyond fame, power, andeternity.

— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.

— Zelda Fitzgerald

I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.

— Karen Lord

Nothing is incidental.

— Pocan Ioan Valentin