How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that are,"he said. "For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones." "Then where is Reality?" barked Tock. "Right here,"cried Alec, waving his arms.

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

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.

Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

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

You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.