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.

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

"Have you ever found anything that gives you relief?" "Yes. A drink."

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.