“Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. ...”

“Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.”

“Love is a hole in the heart.”

“What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.”

“Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.”

“The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of Television. But there is one that stands out fo...”

“Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.”

“A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so l...”

“The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help.”

“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.”

“Our souls are always looking for love, and hearts wait to treasure it.”

“His gut was stitched up good and tight, but that didnt prevent it from flopping. He wiped his damp palms on the legs of his jeans and stood up shakily, leaning heavily on his cane.He called himself...”

“Never fall in love?""Always," said the count. "I am always in love.”