‘Do you think that maybe some events that happen in the world are caused by beings and forces beyond our control?’

‘I meant intervention in literally anything. From national events to the very small things in the daily lives of creatures.’

Well, that's pretty Bulgakovian, I'd say. Reminded me of this:

'And sometimes it's worse still: the man has just decided to go to Kislovodsk' - here the foreigner squinted at Berlioz - 'a trifling matter, it seems, but even this he cannot accomplish, because suddenly, no one knows why, he slips and falls under a tram-car! Are you going to say it was he who governed himself that way? Would it not be more correct to think that he was governed by someone else entirely?' (M.Bulgakov)