Tim Burton Quotes: 9

• One person's craziness is another person's reality.

• Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.

  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

• We all know interspecies romance is weird.

• The Girl With Many EyesOne day in the parkI had quite a surprise.I met a girlwho had many eyes.She was really quite pretty(and also quite shocking!)and I noticed she had a mouth,so we ended up talking.We talked about flowers,and her poetry classes,and the problems she'd haveif she ever wore glasses.It's great to know a girlwho has so many eyes,but you really get wetwhen she breaks down and cries.

• Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry,but do you dream of Heaven?Have you ever wanted to die?

  The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

• Voodoo GirlHer skin is white cloth,and she's all sewn apartand she has many colored pinssticking out of her heart.She has many different zombieswho are deeply in her trance.She even has a zombiewho was originally from France.But she knows she has a curse on her,a curse she cannot win.For if someone getstoo close to her,the pins stick farther in.

• My name is Jimmy,but my friends just call methe hideous penguin boy.

  The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

• Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor,What have you done to my boy?He's not flesh and blood,he's aluminum alloy!"The doctor said gently,What I'm going to saywill sound pretty wild.But you're not the father of this strange looking child.You see, there still is some questionabout the child's gender,but we think that its fatheris a microwave blender.

  The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

• Staring GirlI once knew a girlwho would just stand there and stare.At anyone or anything,she seemed not to careShe'd stare at the ground,She'd stare at the sky.She'd stare at you for hours,and you'd never know why.But after winning the local staring contest,she finally gave her eyesa well-deserved rest.