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What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

When I was stalking my special lady friend on MySpace, people would always say, 'Is this really Marilyn Manson or some kind of psycho?' And I'm like, 'Both.'

As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It's legal to follow me. It's legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can't call the police or ask them to leave.

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

Unless you're a serial killer, you're worried about being liked by somebody.