We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.

People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of

You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.

Freedom is not a license for chaos.

Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.