The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider’s web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning.

Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.

Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.

You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.