A clown sees life simply, without complications.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

The artist, like the idiot, or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than the arrival of twenty asses laden with drugs.

Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of life.