While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.

Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

You're fun to look at," decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-

The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.

[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda]