The latest from Peter Hammill, who’s output as a solo artist and as the de facto leader of Van der Graaf Generator puts him in the same rarefied strata as the late Frank Zappa.  His irregular updates tend to include such poetical and lyrical observations as:

In any event we end up where we are.

As I say, quite as much is built on randomness and accident as on best-laid plans, most of which are overtaken by circumstance in any case.