What’s this?” he inquired, none too pleasantly. “A circus?””No, Julius. It’s the end of the circus.””I see. And these are the clowns?”Foaly’s head poked through the doorway.”Pardon me for interrupting your extended circus metaphor, but...

We didn’t reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

all circus around us” does not exist either.

I run like I walk—only slower. And I make love like a one-man circus show.

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn’t an ideal world, it should be so and painted only the ideal aspects of it – pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers...

When a boy’s first romantic interlude is with Pheobe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life.

Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.

The circus had been unlike anything I could ever imagine and I could not walk away. I wanted to be a part of the magic, create it and wield it with such skill that it...

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

The Circus came to Jacksonville in 1993, and after two decades, the Jaguars are still in town. I just hope the Jaguars hire Tim Tebow, so that maybe the team can finally go to the...

I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus.

Despair is the constant companion of the clown.

For several thousand years man has been in contact with animals whose character and habits have been deformed by domestication. He has ended by believing that he understands them. All he means by this is...

At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman’s wife to perfection. I smiled, I made polite chit-chat, and I dressed the part. Denial and rationalization were two of my most effective tools...

Don’t go to the circus.

America is a circus, and the politicians are the clowns.

If you surround yourself with clowns, don’t be surprised when your life resembles a circus.

T” truth that the wise spend their lives attempting to grasp.

Release your love—and then release the prisoners. They’ve been trapped in my testicles all day. I wonder if we can get a family discount if we buy circus tickets in bulk.

How many of these children would one day be queer? How many would be felled by the acronym? How many by something else? How many would forget the circus? How many would never see it...

Llevamos el circo en la sangre.

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

It was a year ago today your daughter went missing.’ Bagg had closed his eyes, feeling the death going on inside.

Hector wished suddenly that leaving the circus was as easy as joining. He didn’t fancy the ghost of Harvey Burfoot hunting him down and passing judgement on him. Troupe mythology varied on the details –...

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

Maybe they were born of karma, their own or their parents’, Zack thought; maybe the universe had a purpose for them, and they were what they were because the world needed them to be that...

There are a lot of reasons why everyone in the known universe has a boyfriend except for me. I can list the top five on command, just in case anyone’s ever interested. No one ever...

Those are for dissecting dwarves and children,” The Saw Man said, gravely.