“I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.”
“- How does it feel to have a daughter?- At times it's like holding a warm egg in my hand.”
“Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.”
“I mean, I may not hold the record in cleaning house either, but if I've got old milk cartons that smell like maggots I bundle them up and put them out.""I'm on a disability pension'" he said. "I'm socially incompetent.”
“The novel is a kind of elephant. But I like to make that elephant dance on a quarter.”
“I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. ”