“Without war there are no heroes.""What harm would that be?""Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.”
“Why must there be war?" "Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men.”
“What are you smiling at?’ - ‘Oh, nothing much. Just my hero”
“Were we to be engaged in a war . . we should become absolutely destitute of elephants. . .What would our children do without elephants to amuse them? What would the sick do without the sight of elephants to invigorate them?”
“Without trials and tribulation, there would be no hero. Without a hero, there would be no story. Without a story, there is no life as life is made up of vignettes of loving, learning and overcoming.”
“I let her ask the questions. Predictably, the main questions she had were 'What?' and 'Am I going to be on the menu?' Oh, and 'What?”