Revision is its own reward.

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Life is like a story

Give and take.Oil and water. Yes, it is that simple!

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

There's two lanes running down this road which ever side your on, accounts for where you want to go or what you're running from.

It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.

Financially, it was very successful. Which is the most important thing. That is the only way you get to make another movie. It's very simple. The market will value you.

I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.