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I don`t even know the name of this place and, for the life of me, I can`t remember where we came from. But I love the countryside and falling to sleep each night imagining what`s waiting for us up the road.

–Aerialist Lynn Metzger, at a stop in Wataga, Ill., on the joy of traveling with the Culpepper and Merriweather Great Combined Circus.

I`ve never been a hit-single person. I`ve had some hits, but I think they know instinctively and innately that after a quarter of a century that I`m not going to put on Spandex and knee-high boots.

–Folk singer/activist Joan Baez, on the problems she has attracting record companies.

It seems to me a person who deliberately, for their own personal gain, betrays their country should not walk again in this country as a free man.

–U.S. District Judge David Kenyon, sentencing former FBI agent Richard Miller to two life terms plus 50 years for espionage.

I expected it to be smelly and stinky and terrible, from all I heard. Someone has done a nice job of cleaning it up.

–Oregonian Don Watson, traveling with his wife to sail the rivers of North America, on their expedition along the Chicago River.

When it comes to what these party-affiliated wives do when they have time alone with their husbands, it`s the Dems who make love and the GOP respondents who watch TV.

–The Ladies` Home Journal conclusion after surveying 350,000 registered women voters on married life.

At home, I`ll tell him what time the game starts. On the road, I`ll tell him what time the bus leaves.

–Veteran superpitcher Tom Seaver, sometimes criticized for giving bad advice to other pitchers, on how he`d counsel new superpitcher and Red Sox teammate Roger Clemens.