"John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing"

"I'm in the retail business, not the circus business"

"A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in"

"Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town"

"Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond"

"Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit"

"Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim"

"Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood"

"The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen"