Lewis Carroll

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.

"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat:

 "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."

"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.

"You must be," said the Cat, 

"or you wouldn't have come here."

(Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) 

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

"Who are YOU?" said the Caterpillar.

This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, 

"I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- 

at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, 

but I think I must have been changed several times since then."

(Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) 

drawings by Sir John Tenniel

Alice Liddell

" Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice; 

" but a grin without a cat! 

It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!"

(Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) 

Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said

 "one can't believe impossible things." 

"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen.

"When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. 

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." 

(Through the Looking Glass) 

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 

"it means just what I choose it to mean -- 

neither more nor less." 

"The question is," said Alice, 

"whether you can make words mean so many different things." 

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, 

"which is to be master - - 

that's all." 

(Through the Looking Glass)