Damn everything but the circus! …damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear, and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh

Weird doors open. People fall into things.