Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

I was gushing and I knew it. I surprised myself with my eagerness to please, felt myself saying too much, explaining too much, overinvolved and overexcited in the way you are when you're a kid and you think you've found a soul mate in the new boy down the street and you feel yourself drawn by the force of the courtship and so act as you don't normally do and a lot more openly than you may even want to.

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees