nature or nurture

"This is a strange affair, very strange!" declared the Guardian. "But you seem harmless. Folks do not smile so delightfully when they mean mischief."

"As for that," said Jack, "I cannot help my smile, for it is carved on my face with a jack-knife."

-Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

but the scars are so interesting

One is never so pretty after being mended, you know.
-the dainty china Princess, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Frank Baum

ultimate practicality

None of them is fit to work, so you may tear them into small pieces.
-Wicked Witch of the West, Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

I just don't feel motivated to run that maze

There’s no such thing as depression in mice.
-Jerry Cott, psychopharmacologist, kansascity.com

fight the power

Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
-Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

it's not a memory machine

The human brain... the mind... is a quantum-state holistic standing wavefront.
-Dan Simmons, Olympos

wwbkd?

The rubber face. There’s only so many ways you can stare incredulously at the camera and tilt an eyebrow, but that’s your old standby: What would Buster Keaton do?
-Jon Stewart, nytimes.com