You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!
— Lewis Carroll
Colossal Alice In Wonderland Book quotations
It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.
I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then
Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.
Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?
"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
"I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."
Why is a raven like a writing desk?

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation.
You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.
I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.
So she was considering in her own mind.
..whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies.
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents.
This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

We haven't any and you're too young.
There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!
In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by
Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.

The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland";
but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.
Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.