The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

And it was sad music fit to make you cut your throat.

Despair is the constant companion of the clown.

And from the coffin of your madness there is no escape.

She was feeling supernatural tonight. She wanted to EAT diamonds.

Perhaps...I could not be content with mere contentment!

...for nothing is more boring than being forced to play.

From beggar to thief is one step, but a step in two directions at the same time, for what a beggar loses in morality when he becomes a thief he regains in self-respect.

God called us to live a holy life by his grace.

The worst beauty advice that I have ever taken has been from people who have told me that sunscreen isn't necessary. Not true!

I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

No offense, but if you want to be with my niece, you should think about getting a haircut. My mother is very conservative.” “No offense taken,” John said mildly.

those who fail to plan, plan to fail!

People here are funny. They work so hard at living, they forget how to live.

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.