“My heart applauds inside my ears, first like a roaring crowd, then slows and slows until it's a solitary person, clapping with unbridled sarcasm.
Clap. Clap.
Clap.”

“I bring Laura to the edge of the clapping crowd, and I watch her sink, becoming engulfed in the sea of clapter.”

“No no no! Don't clap! No no no, you make me seem like I'm like a prophet or something and I'm so not!”

“I love May's first storms:
chuckling, sporting spring
grumbles in mock anger;
young thunder claps.”

“When everyone clapped and told me they were impressed, I thought: 'I like this - I think I'll keep doing this”

“"If you believe," he shouted to them, "clap your hands; don't let Tink die."
Many clapped.
Some didn't.
A few beasts hissed.
The clapping stopped suddenly; as if countless mothers had rushed to their nurseries to see what on earth was happening; but already Tink was saved. First her voice grew strong, then she popped out of bed, then she was flashing through the room more merry and impudent than ever. She never thought of thanking those who believed, but she would have like to get at the ones who had hissed.”

“…You shouldn't clap, that [was] a lie… I like to tell lies. According to Shakira, hips don't lie. Which makes me a bundle of contradictions.”

“On a live performance: "If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet. If you feel like clapping your hands, clap your hands. And if you feel like taking off your shoes, take off your shoes. We are here to have a ball. So we want you to leave your worldly troubles outside and come in here and swing."”

“We no longer like to think about bureaucracy, yet it informs every aspect of out existence. It’s as if as a planetary civilization, we have decided to clap out hands over our ears and start humming whenever the topic comes up.”

“As I walked down to the end of the barracks, there was applause from the men too weak to get out of bed. It sounded like the hand clapping of babies; they were so weak.”