I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.

Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can't remember what I'm serving.

Why is that when people become ill and have something wrong with any of their organs, they get sympathy from other people - except when that organ is their brain?

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced