And how do you know that you're mad?

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!

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.

To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said 'I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me.

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

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.