Mental Alchemist Gifts

'I think that's enough brain defragging for today.'

"Aristophanes explains comedy"

X-ray Psychology.

"But until I do transmute lead into gold, maybe I could interest you in some lovely lead jewelry."

'I want ideas so bold, so wildly innovative, so undeniably brilliant that they retain a shred of originality after everyone picks them to pieces.'

'There are two types of alchemy - there's organic and there's inorganic.'

Derren Brown: Pushed to the Edge

'You have received a grant from the king - his secret incantation to chant over your experiments.'

'It's an experiment to stop time.'

Prawn Amend

"I don't know, it's just the whole Dark Ages thing. It's got me down."

'But why do you want to transmute asparagus into cotton?'

'I'm trying to turn gold into gasoline.'

"You'd be amazed how just a little soybean meal adds to the protein content of powdered bats wing and next tails."

Brain Sunrise

'Think outside the seed.'

'You are crazy, but in a NICE way.'

"I feel we're making progress."

'Why Isaac Newton kept returning to alchemy...' 'There's just no money in gravity.'

Prozac, Lexapro and Lithium.

"Garbage in, great books out."

'Have no fear - I'll have the project completed for you in no time.'

Brain and heart sweep away the negative

"Of course you can't replicate my experiments. That's the beauty of them."

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Coffee

Alcohol Ingredients

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

'Why bother recreating the 5,000-year-old recipe fo the ancient Egyptians, when there's already one that old at the back of the fridge?'

"Ulrich, that's bad science and you know it!"

"Since I've been using this organic stuff my potions are far more effective."

Scientific Tea.

"After all these years, I'm sure of only one thing: when I heat the liquid, it boils."

'I think you need to work on your frontal lobes.'

"One can only hope this is the raw stuff of art."

"Your immortality tonic may not be worth it, Sol."