One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Chesire
cat in a tree. “Which road do I take?” she asked. “Where do you want to go?”
was his response. “I don't know,” Alice answered. "Then,” said the cat,"it
doesn't matter.”
—Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
The fact that she had a nut for a head did make new ideas difficult for her mind to grasp. — Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Miss Hickory 1946)