“Taking a couple short backup swigs, Flints crippling headache started to release its grip, sort of the way he imagined an octopus would release an inedible bowling ball.”

“Bear your pain or it will come back”

“So the gods must mean something else, said Jix.God, not gods! insisted Johnnie.Nick threw up his hands. God, gods, or whatever, said Nick. Right now, it doesnt matter whether its Jesus, or Kukulcan...”

“A gift can never be cheap or insignificant because of the heart and love it carries.”

“I cant believe Ive missed this sport. Its all about fingering holes and caressing balls.”

“People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.”

“Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.”

“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.”