You crave chaos. You're happiest when the world is in an uproar. You thrive on madness. Even when your magic is at its best when it's the catalyst to confusion. You still can't admit this?

Memories, real and irreplaceable, all of them. The happy ones, the bitter ones, the terrified and the poignant.

You understand the logic behind the illogical, Alyssa. It's in your nature to find tranquility amid the madness. And that's what we're doing here. We are giving our food a fighting chance.

But I do, and the barbed wire tightens once more, until my heart is strangled and broken.

Now, you listen, Alyssa Victoria Gardner. Normal is subjective. Don't ever let anyone tell you you're not normal. Because you are to me. And my opinion is all that matters. Got it?

cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an event

YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."So we can believe the big ones?"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

Medicine is so fascinating.

Salt is the only product that changes cuisine. There's a big difference between food that has salt and food without it. If you don't believe that, ask people who can't eat salt.

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.

The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?'

The false separation between living and giving must end.

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.