No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.

Consider anything, only don’t cry!

I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?

PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.