“Sentence first, verdict afterwards.”

He was part of my dream, of course – but then I was part of his dream, too.

Life, what is it but a dream?

If you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison’ it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

My view of life is, that it’s next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.

In some ways, you know, people that don’t exist, are much nicer than people that do.

Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It’s so interesting!

How long is forever? Sometimes, just one second.

Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!

Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

The only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar and sacrifice it, truly sacrifice it.

If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world into two, combatants and noncombatants.

Appeal can’t happen until I’ve been sentenced.

Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.

You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so it’s that compression. The best code is poetry.

First sentences are doors to worlds.

The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.