Alice: “Would you please tell me which way I should go from here?”

Cheshire Cat: “That depends on where you want to go,” said the cat.

Alice: “I don't care where—” said Alice.

Cheshire Cat: “Then it doesn't matter which way you go,” said the cat.

Alice: “—so long as I get somewhere,” Alice added.

Cheshire Cat: “Oh, you're sure to find a place,' said the cat, 'as long as you walk long enough.”

Alice: Feeling that she couldn't deny this, Alice asked another question.

“What kind of people live here?”

Cheshire Cat: “In that direction,” waving one paw, “lives a Hatter.

And in that direction,” waving the other paw, “the March Hare lives.

Go whichever way you want.

They're both mad.”

Alice: “But I don't want to go among mad people,” said Alice.

Cheshire Cat: “Oh, you can't avoid that,” said the cat.

“We're all mad here.

I'm mad. You're mad.”

Alice: “How do you know I'm mad?” said Alice.

Cheshire Cat: “Because you came here,” said the cat.

“Otherwise, you wouldn't have come.”

Alice: Alice thought that this statement was not proven at all, but she continued to ask.

“If so, how do you know that you are mad?”

Cheshire Cat: “To begin with,” said the cat, “a dog's not mad.

You agree with that, right?”

Alice: “I suppose so,” said Alice.

Cheshire Cat: “If so,” the Cat continued.

“When a dog gets angry, it growls, and when it's happy, it wags its tail.

But I growl when I'm happy, and I wag my tail when I'm angry.

Therefore I'm mad.”