Well, you can always be a clown. (laughs).

In the Greek mythology he flew to the sun and fell to his death in the ocean.

This is the peak of what they've learned, their formal discipline of what they've mastered.

It's kind of fun to be a clown. I've always played the clown. The clowns come on, get the biggest, juiciest laughs, and then leave.

we laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged.

Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.