“Death's gruesome face taunts:soulless eyes, crimson grimace.I really hate clowns.”

“Death's gruesome face taunts:soulless eyes, crimson grimace.I really hate clowns.”

“Ax-man. Cardboard isn’t one of the major food groups, remember?”-Marco”

“Death's gruesome face taunts:soulless eyes, crimson grimace.I really hate clowns.”

“You needed love to win at the game of music...I played of sadness. I played of loneliness. Despair. Love found and lost. I played of tragic misunderstanding and weary cynicism and defeat. I played of perseverance, endurance beyond all suffering. Endurance in the face of hopelessness, hope when even hope was a betrayal...And yet, though I played so much sadness, the music at the same time denied despair. How could anyone despair while music was being played?”

“Anger only gets in the way.”

“Up to me. Great. I could hurt my mom and my sisters, or I could hurt my dad. Perfect. Isn't divorce fun?”

“Give me liberty or give me death.' A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer Earth that humans said things like that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew what they were getting into." -Aximili Esgarrouth Isthill”

“My family tree spreads wide as well. I am a great ape, and you are a great ape, and so are chimpanzees and orangutans and bonobos, all of us distant and distrustful cousins.I know this is troubling.I too find it hard to believe there is a connection across time and space, linking me to a race of ill-mannered clowns.Chimps. There's no excuse for them.”

“Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.”

“How has he moved so quickly from childlike naïvité to existential panic?”

“I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.”