The land in Laṅkā is wooden

Once Kaṡyapa's son Garuḍa expressed his desire to have a hearty meal to become strong enough to save his mother from the snakes. Kaṡyapa told Garuḍa about a huge elephant and a tortoise at the bottom of the ocean and told him to devour them. Garuḍa carried them onto a nearby Kalpavṛkṣa tree to enjoy his meal. But the weight of the well-built Garuḍa, together with the elephant, caused the tree branch to snap. Garuḍa held the branch with his beak stopping it from falling on the Vālakhilya (thumb-sized ṛṣis) who were meditating under the tree. Garuḍa then asked his father what he should do with the broken branch. Kaṡyapa directed him to take it some place far away. Laṅkā was established on this branch of that Kalpavṛkṣa tree, and therefore the land there is wooden.

[1] Tales from the Kathasaritsagara, Arshia Sattar (translator), Penguin Classics, 1994.
[2] The Ocean of Story, C. H. Tawney (translator), C. J. Sawyer Ltd., London, 1924.

V for Vendetta [1]

V: [Evey pulls out her mace] I can assure you I mean you no harm.
Evey Hammond: Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey Hammond: Well I can see that.
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
Evey Hammond: Oh. Right.
V: But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona.
V: Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
[carves "V" into poster on wall]
V: The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
V: [giggles]
V: Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
Evey Hammond: Are you, like, a crazy person?
V: I am quite sure they will say so. But to whom, might I ask, am I speaking with?
Evey Hammond: I'm Evey.
V: Evey? E-V. Of course you are.
Evey Hammond: What does that mean?
V: It means that I, like God, do not play with dice and do not believe in coincidence. Are you hurt?

Reference:
[1] IMDb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/quotes (Accessed Dec 19, 2012)