“Its strange how what drives us may abandon us midstream, how what tickles our ears with lies one moment may tell us truths that knock us on our emotional ass the next. After all, it is an unbelieva...”

“Sometimes belief is the reason for liberation; other times, our own conviction prevents our escape. It depends on whether or not you believe God is listening, if you can cling to hope in the graves...”

“I could almost see fairies skipping on top of the snake-tongue flamesbrief moments of clarity overcome by suffocating normalcy. It occurred to me that everything is believable during a glimpse, and...”

“I wept for relationships not possible due to denial and dreams locked in the back of peoples minds, all of the bits of life that lay dormant until the babblings of televisions and nursing homes swe...”

“The journey was a surreal dream. This world was about knowing the person youd always wanted to be and setting your foot down to it, remembering the person youd thought you were as a child and rejoi...”

“Someone is pounding on a door within you and hoping for an answer. They want to tell us the secret tale of ourselves. The stories weve never told. Some African tribes believe if you were to tell so...”

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great...”

“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cove...”

“What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.”

“Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.”

“Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.”

“When we realize that we are not the mind, we do not exist as a labled person. We also experience all circus around us does not exist either.”

“Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”

“You laugh because what's fearful and unknown is also what's funny, you laugh the way a small child will sometimes laugh and cry at the same time when a capering circus clown approaches, knowing it ...”

“The most important things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them...”