“It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.”

“All right," he said. "Since you ask so nicely."
"I wasn't asking."
"I'm aware of that. The sharp point in my back did make it clear.”

“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”

“I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel.
I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to meet you.”

“Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.”

“Maybe he was crazy, he thought. It would explain everything. Insanity was good that way.”

“You made this world to look so nice
I wonder what the next one's like?”

“Do you love him?"
There were only a few people in the world who could ask me such insanely personal questions without getting punched. Dimitri was one of them.”

“Who says I'm insane?""

""Oh you're sane alright.
You're so sane, you scare me.
You're so sane, it's insane.”

“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”
Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio.