“Their secrets inadvertently sidestepped each other, unaware, like blindfolded elephants crossing the tiny room.”

“It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.”

“I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.”

“A warsheep would be a cross between a dolphin and a small, limber elephant.”

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

“She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.”