“Ella is nervous,” the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. “The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella.”

“He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.”

“Of all African animals, the elephant is the most difficult for man to live with, yet its passing - if this must come - seems the most tragic of all. I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange such as mow grass with its toenails or draw the tusks from the rotted carcass of another elephant and carry them off into the bush. There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.”

“Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants”

“We were all staring as we passes him, slowly, like a tourist at a wildlife park watching elephants from the safety of their wagon.”

“A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.”