Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.

I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!

She's stark raving mad!

burning with curiosity

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.