“I was still excited. Big or small, elephants are elephants, after all. Just before we mounted, when I was sure no one could see me, I quickly kissed the shoulder of my beast and murmured, 'Hey, swe...”

“Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.”

“A mouse can fall down a mine shaft a third of a mile deep without injury. A rat falling the same distance would break his bones; a man would simply splash ... Elephants have their legs thickened to...”

“War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.”

“The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.”

“External nature is only internal nature writ large.”

“too many left-wing student groups treat no one as badly as students of color or women who consider themselves to be classical liberals, libertarians, or conservatives, or who merely disagree with t...”

“There is no sin that will be left unpunished.”

“And how easy it is to recognize the revenant shapes that the old unchanging enemiesracism, leader worship, superstitionassume when they reappear amongst us (often bodyguarded by their new apologists).”