“I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician”
“...Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people.”
“I can only conclude that worse than hunger or thirst, worse than being unemployed, unhappy in love or defeated and in despair, far worse than any of all those things, is feeling that no one, absolutely no one, cares about us.”
“Are you a politician?I hate politicians, he said. And, in any case, there's no such thing anymore: only sycophants and dissidents.”
“The only place that I wanna be is where you are, cause any more than a heartbeat away is just too far.”
“Gifts were dangerous things, she thought. Sometimes one succeeded only in taking far more than one gave.”