“The novel is a kind of elephant. But I like to make that elephant dance on a quarter.”
“The elephants are dancing on the graves of squeeling mice.”
“I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. ”
“I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.”
“It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.”
“I had no time to make a world of my own: I had to stay fixed like Atlas, my feet on the elephant's back and the elephant on the tortoise's back. To inquire on what the tortoise stood would be to go mad.”