“Of course politics are important — Iraq, Palestine, even social deprivation in Bradford. But as we wake up to this huge challenge to our civilised values, don't let's forget the elephant in the room — an elephant called "religion."”

“Women and elephants never forget.”

“Women and elephants never forget an injury.”

“The hierarchy problem is the elephant in the room. ... And it originally showed up in the context of doublet–triplet splitting problem.”

“Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.”

“But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant”

“China is referred to as the ‘dragon’ and India as an ‘elephant’. But we are not an elephant, we are a ‘beehive’.”

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

“When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.”

“I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined, or hard to check, as a socially ambitious mother.”