“A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.”
“Women and elephants never forget.”
“But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant”
“when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants. ”
“Everything must have a beginning, to speak in Sanchean phrase; and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. The Hindus give the world an elephant to support it, but they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise.”
“Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.”